Don Quijones: Colombia Pays the Steep Cost of So-Called “Free” Trade
Colombia demonstrates the cost of being subject to investors lawsuits under “trade” deals.
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Treasury Implements New Rules Aimed at Inversions, Other Tax Strategies, Scuttling Pfizer-Allergan Deal and Evoking Howls from Pharma
Mirabile dictu! Treasury took surprisingly bold action to stymie corporate inversions and some other types of multi-national tax gaming. What gives?
Read more...#panamapapers – Why Critic Craig Murray Needs the Scorecard Before He Can Name The Players
Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces
Read more...How Much Has Global Economic Power Really Shifted?
Why the shift in economic power from advanced to developing economies has not gone as far as most accounts would have you believe.
Read more...New Zealand Foreign Trusts and the Unaoil Scandal: More Chickens Coming Home to Roost, and They’re Big
First a political fracas in Malta, now a giant international bribery scandal: New Zealand Foreign Trusts cover themselves in more glory
Read more...Marshall Auerback: Donald Trump Understands the Nexus Between Trade and Immigration
By linking immigration and trade, however crudely, Trump has exposed the broader paradox and inherent contradictions which lurk between the two.
Read more...Brexit: This is What We Call a Muppet Show
An update on the Brexit referendum.
Read more...Thomas Frank: How Democrats Created Liberalism of the Rich
Make no mistake; the Democrats engineered the Third Way faux liberalism that sold out the working classes to benefit the rich and their minions.
Read more...Wolf Richter: World Trade Collapses in Dollars, Languishes in Volume
A rout in world trade that started in June 2014 shows no sign of getting better.
Read more...Don Quijones: Brexit Meltdown at the Bank of England
The current and former governors of the Bank of England are singing from very different hymnals on the subject of Brexit.
Read more...Michael Pettis: Trump and the Re-Emergence of the Jacksonians
Why Trump represents a recurring set of grievances in American politics, and elites are making a mistake in dismissing them.
Read more...Robert Reich: 5 Reasons Why Trump’s and Cruz’s Tax Plans are Huge Giveaways to the Rich
Trump’s tax plan reveals that his economic populism is three-card Monte.
Read more...Assuming Away Unemployment and Trade Deficits from the TPP
It should come as no surprise that the Peterson Institute has managed to model the impact of the TPP so that it does not increase unemployment.
Read more...The Refugee Crisis: A European Call for Action
A proposal for how to overcome the lack of consensus in Europe over the refugee crisis.
Read more...Peter Van Buren: Five Questions You Probably Won’t Hear in the Presidential Debates
The presidential debates carefully tip-toe around basic foreign policy and domestic security issues. Time to lift the cone of silence.
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