Brexit Was a Cry of Financial Pain and Not the Influence of the Old
A new analysis of why voters decided for or against Brexit.
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May Rebuffed in Personal Brexit Lobbying in Brussels, Yet Much of UK Press Spins Otherwise
The latest Brexit follies….
Read more...May to Plead With Merkel as Brexit Deadlocks Domestically Too; New Data Shows UK Lacks Foreign Reserves, Meaning Even More Vulnerable to Brexit
New data showing that the UK has negative net foreign assets throws even more cold water on the idea of a Glorious Brexit.
Read more...Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy
The economy game is enormously fun for far too few players and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.
Read more...Theresa May Tries to Pass Off Handwaves as Meaningful Planning in Case of Disorderly Brexit
The Government provides yet more evidence that it is utterly unprepared for Brexit.
Read more...EU Dashes UK Fantasy of Talking About “Future Relationship,” Meaning Trade, Soon
Yet another Brexit fantasy bites this dust, this one the much-ballyhooed “future relationship” talks.
Read more...Naked Capitalism: Things You Won’t Read Anywhere Else (Until Much Later, Maybe)
Naked Capitalism provides a wide array of analysis and resources on the economy, politics, and world trends that you can’t find anywhere else
Read more...EU Immigration – A Gateway Drug
Citizens have become far more sensitive to the perceived and real costs of immigration. Ignore those concerns and risk losing power.
Read more...Brexit Denialism: The Customs/Border Problem and the Curious Case of the Pallets
A case study of how basic, critically important Brexit issues like customs are being ignored by the Government, to the peril of the public.
Read more...Europe’s Globalists Tackle the Immigration Class War
As immigration becomes a political flash point, even hard core neoliberals like Emmanuel Macron are advocating restrictions.
Read more...Big Business Dominates Brexit Negotiations
Nick Dearden discusses how Brexit ministers in the UK had six corporate lobby meetings for every one meeting with civil society groups.
Read more...Global Banks Sabotage Uruguay’s Efforts to Legalize Marijuana
A state-owned bank of a sovereign nation just decided to put draconian US legislation before a law adopted by the Uruguayan parliament.
Read more...Brexit Makes Labour Exploitation More Likely in the UK
Negotiations on a future Brexit deal have barely started, yet EU workers across the UK are already finding themselves more vulnerable.
Read more...Will Big Data Eat Hollywood’s Lunch?
Hollywood relies ever more heavily on repetitive content.
Will firms like Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, and Google swallow it whole?
“How to Run a Cheap Foreign Labor Economic Model”
An illustration of how the debate on globalization too often, mistakenly, fixates on labor costs as a driver of “competitiveness”.
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