Mathew D. Rose: Chancellor Merkel Victrix
Merkel took a big setback in Sunday’s regional elections, but what do they portend?
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Nicholas Shaxson: Why “National Competitiveness” is Like Ice Cream
Beware of accounting firms playing with numbers to push tax competitiveness, as in tax breaks.
Read more...Gaius Publius: When Trump Talks Trade, Voters Listen
It’s easier for liberals to blame Trump voters for racism than to blame themselves for the job-loss and pain of the working class.
Read more...HSBC’s Money Laundering Nightmare (2): Mossack Fonseca, a Year in Words and Pictures, March 2015-March 2016
Mossack Fonseca and its trail of street protests: they are in it up to their thighs, and HSBC’s Stuart Gulliver has “no idea”.
Read more...Could This Lawsuit Be the Straw That Breaks the TPP’s Back?
TransCanada has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the US under NAFTA or scuttling its cross-border pipeline. The TPP gives foreign investors even stronger rights.
Read more...Krugman Then and Now on Trade
Krugman shifts ground (yet again) as hostility to the negative effects of trade deals appears to be a big component of Sanders’ Michigan upset
Read more...Life after Brexit: The UK’s Options Outside the EU
What are UK’s options if a majority votes in favour of Brexit this June?
Read more...The Implications of Brexit for the Rest of the EU
Brexit would leave the EU an even more impaired regional and geo-political player than now, when it already punches far below its economic weight.
Read more...The Modi Government and India’s Economy
Why is India experiencing so much political upheaval when it has one of the fastest growing economies in the world?
Read more...Some Real Costs of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Nearly Half a Million Jobs Lost in the US Alone
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will lead to job losses overall, with the US taking the biggest hit.
Read more...Merkel Channels Varoufakis: “No Plan B,” in This Case, on Migrants
Is Angela Merkel’s “Plan B” remark a Freudian slip, a recognition that like Varoufakis, she’s alienated so many people that she can no longer cinch a deal?
Read more...The China Delusion
Why the path forward for China is fraught from both an economic and political standpoint.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Age of Stagnation or Something Worse?
In The Age of Stagnation, author Satyajit Das has shifted from his usual wry detachment to a sense of foreboding.
Read more...Can Mass Migration Boost Innovation and Productivity?
Mass migration is getting a bad rap. Is it entirely deserved?
Read more...It’s Not Just TPP. Can a President Kill NAFTA? Al Gore Thought So. Hillary Clinton Too.
Given what Hillary and Gore have said about Nafta, it’s time to ask candidates much more pointed questions about Nafta and the TPP.
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