The Grain Giants Have Made a Bonanza from Hunger. Time to Take Them Apart
The global food system, heavily influenced by the big grain companies, needs an overhaul to allow diverse crops, producers and supply routes
Read more...The global food system, heavily influenced by the big grain companies, needs an overhaul to allow diverse crops, producers and supply routes
Read more...Satyajit Das’ final post on where the world order is headed.
Read more...Satyajit Das continues his tour of the breakup of the world order, here focusing on financial/economic dislocations and dysfunctional elites
Read more...How sanctions against Russia are achieving the polar opposite of what colonialism was all about: controlling and exploiting resources.
Read more...Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems
Read more...Satyajit Das provides a multi-facted overview of how key world structures are breaking as the US fights to preseve its imperial hold.
Read more...Diesel fuel is in scarcer supply than ever. Shortages coming?
Read more...The US is seriously considering yet another self-destructive move: bringing the Saudis to heel via a frontal legal/sanctions attack on OPEC.
Read more...Central bank dogma over inflation is pushing the world economy into recession, with many dire consequences for poorer countries.
Read more...the EU using an obscure steel secondary sanction to whack Türkiye?
Read more...There seems to be no escape from looming economic and financial problems, but the officialdom will do it best to delay the reckoning.
Read more...The stock of real estate in China is now quite large for what is still a lower-middle-income country.
Read more...We’re again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008.
Read more...How so-called free trade has often brought large scale death, sometimes by design.
Read more...Why emerging markets look set to suffer a world of hurt.
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