The 2022 Globie: Money and Empire – Perry Mehrling on Charles Kindleberger
Perry Merhling’s recent book on Charles Kindleberger finds he had prescient beliefs about the need for a prudent international money minder.
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“The Expat Experience”
Some perspectives on being an expat.
Read more...Thomas Frank on How the Feckless Democrats Trashed the American Middle Class
How Democrats abandoned populist economic ideas and whether there is a future for progressivism.
Read more...Michael Hudson Discusses the Future of Europe and Global Restructuring
Michael Hudson describes how the war with Russia is changing the economic and political order, and not to the advantage of Europe and the US.
Read more...Needed Global Financial Reforms Foregone Yet Again
The pathologies that produced the financial crisis are still circulating.
Read more...Dethroning the Dollar: What Governments Propose, IT Disposes
Why the road away from the dollar will have many twists and turns.
Read more...The Russian Oil Price Cap Isn’t as Simple as It Seems
The harder your look at the Russian oil price cap, the uglier it looks.
Read more...A New Era for Germany’s Gas Industry Fuels Climate Fears
Moves to end energy dependence on Russia are a win for the gas lobby, locking Germany into the global market for liquefied natural gas.
Read more...Rich Nations Doubly Responsible for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
How the greenhouse gas emissions blame game pits advanced economies against developing ones.
Read more...New Global Estimates on Profits in Tax Havens Suggest the Tax Loss Continues to Rise
Quelle surprise! Despite EU and US initiatives to curb corporate use of tax havens, big companies continue to fatten their wallets.
Read more...Between Deglobalisation and Slowbalisation: Where Europe Stands
Globalization is as important as ever for Europe where hundreds of thousands of companies and millions of jobs are supported by global trade flows.
Read more...Michael Hudson Answers Questions on Europe’s Self-Immolation, Fed’s Malpractice, Changing World Order
Michael Hudson covers a wide range of topics, including the decline of Europe, the Fed’s mismanagement, the rise of new economic blocs
Read more...Not Every Robin = Spring and Not Every Story About Moving Away from the Dollar Is Well Founded
A small illustration of why some of the stories about reducing dollar dependence are misguided.
Read more...Repairing a Fractured World Economy?
Richard Kozul-Wright describes the current world economic disorder, and discusses possibilities and limits of effective regional responses
Read more...How Workers and Pro-Union Politicians Team Up for Fair Trade
The US gets out of bed to go after some illegal foreign trade subsidies. Sadly this sort of thing does not happen very often.
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