The US Retail Crisis
America is undergoing a retail sector crisis, partly related to the increase of competition from online commerce. We review this debate.
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Hamburgdämmerung: The End of G20 as a “Premier Forum for International Economic Cooperation”?
At G20, many key economic issues receive very little attention, unlike many other issues outside its traditional mandate
Read more...National Audit Office Warns of Brexit Customs IT Train Wreck….Nine Months After Naked Capitalism
Yet another big Brexit disaster in the making.
Read more...Single Market Maze Contains Clues to Complex Brexit Puzzle
Brexit boosters have sidestepped the issue of reconstituting trading arrangements, a major lapse.
Read more...More Brexit Backpedaling, UK May Relent on ECJ Red Line for “Transition Period”
Yet more Brexit bad news just before Theresa May is set to present her Great Repeal Bill.
Read more...US Senate Strikes for Russian Equality – The Oligarchs Targeted in New Sanctions Bill
Parsing the details and the logic of the Senate sanctions against Russia and in particular, its oligarchs.
Read more...Economics of the Populist Backlash
Populist movements are the regular result of trade-induced economic dislocations and distribution. So why were economists surprised?
Read more...The Slogan ‘Globalization Equals Growth’ Is Wrong
Looking at different types of globalization helps explain why it isn’t necessarily beneficial.
Read more...America and China: A Quick Critique of “The Thucydides Trap”
Is the concept of a “rising” China inevitably in conflict with a “ruling” United States correct?
Read more...Can EU Actors Keep Using Common Law After Brexit?
The widespread use of English law in financial contracts poses yet another set of tricky post-Brexit issues.
Read more...Brexit and the Future of the Irish Border
Why there is no good solution of the Irish border problem in Brexit, and how the Tories’ new buddies, the DUP, have contradictory goals.
Read more...Globalization and Executive Compensation
One way globalization has increased inequality: via executive pay.
Read more...For ‘Easy Brexit’: May’s ‘No Deal’ Campaign Rhetoric Is Nonsense
If May holds on to her Prime Minister job, her irresponsible Brexit campaign talk may come back to haunt her.
Read more...Measuring the Impact of Immigration on Wages: The Mariel Boatlift Controversy
125,000 mainly low-skill Cuban immigrants arrived in Miami in 1980. Economists are still debating whether they lowered local wages.
Read more...Climate Change: “It Depends on How We They Value Time”
Why conventional economic approaches give dangerously misguided answers when applied to climate change.
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