Brexit: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
No one knows what is set to happen on Brexit day.
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The Possible Chinese-US Trade Deal
A review of opinions in the English-speaking blogosphere on the likely content of the US-China deal and the message this agreement sends to the world.
Read more...China Syndrome Redux: New Results on Global Labour Reallocation
What did China gain when the US lost manufacturing jobs?
Read more...Brexit: The Test of the Ultras?
Another supposed big Brexit day in Parliament. Will this prove to be yet another damp squib?
Read more...A Study in Professional Power: Why Do the Big 4 Accountants Survive?
How the Big 4 accountants cemented their position and why that matters.
Read more...How Neoliberalism Is Normalising Hostility
Tracing how neoliberalism has corroded social values.
Read more...Why Suburbs Must Be the Next Frontier for Cities Policy
The challenge of suburbs for social and environmental policy.
Read more...Why Not Start Saving the Biosphere by Outlawing Private Jets?
A forcing device for how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in one industry
Read more...A Serious Green New Deal Would Take Up One-Third of the Economy—Are We Ready for That?
Looking at some of the ramifications of a Green New Deal.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony
Trump’s neocon extremists are burning the US dollar house down.
Read more...The Silicon Curtain: The Gloves Come Off With China
An Australian perspective on the West’s growing conflict with China.
Read more...Rethinking Free Trade Agreements in Uncertain Times
Jomo Kwame Sundaram makes the case against the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement that went into effect at the end of 2018, for six of its eleven member countries.
Read more...Richard Murphy: Davos Wants a Better Measure of Failure
Some Davos musings show that our elites aren’t what they are cracked up to be.
Read more...UN Backs Seed Sovereignty as Defense Against Multinational-Led GMO Projects
The anti-GMO UN declaration was written by and for peasants from every continent.
Read more...These 2018 Corporate Scandals Demonstrate Why the New Democratic Congress Must Crack Down on Corruption
Though Mueller’s revelations have shocked the American public consciousness, they were not the biggest financial scandals of the year.
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