Brexit: The Crisis Begins
The Brexit vote was a stunning repudiation of neoliberalism and austerity. But what comes next?
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IMF Warns That Inequality, Poverty, Low Productivity Growth, Falling Workforce Participation Will Drag on US Growth
The IMF has become an unlikely reporter of unpleasant realities about the US economy, particularly the costs of inequality and distress. If only its prescriptions were better….
Read more...Slavery At Sea: The Ugly Underbelly Of Oil Shipping
A Pulitzer-prize wining series last year exposed slavery in commercial fishing. Sadly, it is taking place in oil shipping too.
Read more...Brexit Risk and Nigel Farage: We Know Where His Mouth is (“England”), But is His Money Offshore?
Is Nigel Farage’s wealth offshore? Is that why he’s so calm about Brexit?
Read more...Facing Up to the World’s Health Crises….and the TPP Would Make Matters Worse
The TPP threatens to undermine public health just as the world is on the verge of major health crises.
Read more...Mathew D. Rose: Brexit – The End of the Universe
Germany is determined to teach the UK a costly lesson if it dares to defy its hegemony via a Brexit.
Read more...Need a Loan in China? Hand Over a Nude Photo
Lender demands in China as a sign of credit stress.
Read more...Global Money: A Work in Progress
Bagehot outlined some of the requirements for global money. Are we closer to a solution?
Read more...Why a Leave Vote May Not Result in a Brexit
The ruling classes in the UK will be highly motivated to try to get the Brexit genie back in the bottle.
Read more...New Zealand: Kea Street Cred and US$1Bn Promise Lures Kiwi to Front Very Peculiar Financial Service Providers
Another duo of wildly offbeat New Zealand Financial Services Providers
Read more...New Zealand: Icon Sachs (Whatever That is), Fennas Finance, a Bank Account at an ANZ Napier Branch, a Conspiracy Theorist And a Ponzi Scheme
Yet more strange sightings in the New Zealand Register of Companies
Read more...New IMF Paper Challenges Neoliberal Orthodoxy
A new IMF paper takes on some neoliberal sacred cows.
Read more...Free Trade in Rhetoric, Not in Practice
The gap between the posturing and practice of free trade.
Read more...The New Abnormal: “Disequilibrium Flirting with Deflationary Depression”
The New Abnormal: a period of profound disequilibrium as the aftershocks of the Crisis collide with and complicate structural changes.
Read more...After Distancing Herself From Bill Clinton’s Economic Policies, Hillary Wants Him as Mr. Economic Fix It
Like the Bourbons, the Clintons appear to have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
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