After “the worst-on-record unbelievably bad” November, even e-commerce gets hit, not just brick & mortar, on fears Christmas sales could be terrible. Can we make out any a silver lining in this retail meltdown, signs of a shift necessary away from fast fashion toward a more sustainable future?
Read more...More seemingly bad news for the UK on the Brexit front…save none of this should come as news.
Read more...Scottish Limited Partnerships and International Crime: NO evidence??
Read more...The UK continues to flail about as the Brexit clock keeps ticking.
Read more...As the Brexit clock is running down, so too are the available plays.
Read more...Almost everyone agrees on the analysis of what caused the yellow jacket movement: the growth of inequalities, the marginalization of certain regions and social categories, austerity and neoliberal politics. Then accounts diverge.
Read more...Why May oddly matters even more than before.
Read more...Some background on the demands the gilets jaunes are presenting to French president Macron.
Read more...Big Brexit events of the week are underway, starting with the ECJ ruling on unilateral reversal of an Article 50 notice.
Read more...More Brexit follies.
Read more...The Brexit situation has developed not necessarily to the advantage of Theresa May.
Read more...Theresa May continues to exhibit her remarkable capacity for taking punishment. Too bad it’s not for good ends.
Read more...An overview of the gilets jaunes movement.
Read more...A short discussion of why economists’ efforts to model the impact of Brexit leave a lot to be desired.
Read more...Blackstone is a major operator in the Spanish property market. This post discusses the Spanish government’s plans to enact modest protections for tenants by reforming rent laws. Will the government respond to tenant needs, or give way to the private equity firm’s implicit threat to reduce its Spanish property investments? Alas, it looks likely that the government will fail to deliver on its reform pledge.
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