Category Archives: Globalization

Solar Import Tariff: Pain Without Benefit

On the not-well-thought-out solar tariff.

Another Brexit Casualty: The Channel Tunnel, aka Eurostar

Why the impact of Brexit on Eurostar will literally be a train wreck.

Brexit: UK Still Refusing to Do Any Thinking Re Trade

The UK is going nowhere fast on Brexit, except it is trying even harder than before to blame the EU for its problems.

International Trade and Globalization: Are Benefits Truly Mutual?

Questioning economic orthodoxies on trade.

Selling Out Argentina’s Future—Again

How Argentina’s new neoliberal masters are driving the economy back into its old debt crisis ditch.

The Year in Money

A review of money issues…and mainly not bitcoin.

Exposure to Brexit in Regions on Both Sides of the Channel

A granular analysis of which regions will lose most from Brexit.

EU’s Michel Barnier Clears Throat to Tell the UK It Won’t Get a Special Deal…After God Knows How Many EU Leaders Have Already Said That

The EU is still making a lot of noise to get the UK to begin to hear things the EU has been saying since the morning after the Brexit vote.

Tech Giants Trying to Use WTO to Colonize Emerging Economies

Tech titans like Google and Apple seek to create a “global” regime to prevent developing economies from protecting their companies or data.

David Davis Points Out Brexit “Breakthrough” Isn’t Binding as Draft European Council Statement Tightens the Screws

More discussion of the overhyped Brexit “breakthrough” of last Friday.

DUP Humiliates May, Extends Freeze on Talks as Hard Core Brexiters Fume

Brexit talks are at a complete impasse. That is probably a good thing.

Eastern Europe Showed How Neoliberalism Produces Reactionary Populism, Like Trump

Trump’s antecedents in Eastern Europe show how widening inequality and failed economic promises pave the way for reactionary politics.

Germany’s Dystopian Plans for Europe: From Fantasy to Reality?

For Germany, the idea of Europeanism has allowed its elites to conceal their hegemonic project behind the veil of ‘European integration’.

Brexit’s Irish Checkmate

Brexit talks and Theresa May are in serious trouble.

Tax Cuts, Wages and Salaries: Will Lower Taxes and Profit Repatriation Help Workers?

Debunking some of the claims of tax “reform” proponents, like that giving companies a tax break to repatriate profits will create jobs.