What Should Europe Expect from American Trade Policy After the Election?
Biden promises to go back to an old normal. But how realistic is that on the trade front?
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Citi’s Recidivist Rule-Breaking and Incompetence Shows Persistence of Too Big/Complex to Fail Problem
Citi’s latest run-in with regulators shows why comparing big banks “too big/complex to fail” problems to those of Big Tech is all wet.
Read more...Low Labour Shortages Can Help Explain Sluggish Wage Growth
Real-time indicators based on qualitative survey data provided an overly optimistic picture of labour market conditions and wage growth in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
Read more...Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth: How Deep Will the Depression Get?
Rana Roroohar and Mark Blyth discuss the elections, tech, China, and Covid v. recovery with Paul Jay.
Read more...Brexit: Running the Clock Down
Why Brexit motion should not be confused with progress.
Read more...Covid-19 and the Global Addiction to Cheap Migrant Labor
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the world’s structural dependence on exploitable labor.
Read more...Brexit: Confrontation
The Brexit process is as ugly as ever.
Read more...How Donald Trump Abandoned Workers After Promising to Bring Manufacturing Back to the U.S.
Restoring manufacturing to the US is a tall order. Not surprisingly, Trump’s approach has been unserious.
Read more...Why isn’t Donald Trumpeting His Foreign Policy Record?
The Trump team are more than skilled enough to manipulate their presentation of foreign achievements as successes if not triumphs.
Read more...We Must Defeat the US Trade Deal
Why signing up to a US trade deal would mean a loss of sovereignity for the UK.
Read more...The “Crew Change” Crisis: 300,000 Seafarers Trapped. Will International Trade Grind to a Halt?
Will governments, unions, international organizations, and ship-owners be able to collaborate to solve the growing “crew change” crisis?
Read more...Importing Inequality: Immigration and the Top 1%
Data from UK tax records with new information on migrant status to show that that migrants are highly represented at the top of the UK’s income distribution.
Read more...How NAFTA Lost Democrats the South
How the New Democrats’ trade deals fractured the multi-racial coalition that Martin Luther King had helped forge in the South.
Read more...The Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods and Why They’re Really Bad for Our Health
Factors driving the growth of ultra-processed foods, such as Big Food lobbying, despite these Frankenfoods being really bad for our health.
Read more...Topsoil Degradation, Soil Erosion, and Soil Governance (Global or Otherwise)
How long will it take for the world to run out of topsoil? What will it take to avoid it?
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