Category Archives: Globalization

Identifying Vectors Influencing China’s (and International) Markets

A list of some of the factors driving the recent market upheaval in China. Readers will hopefully add to and refine this compilation.

Michael Hudson: The Top Three Economic Stories of 2015

Yves here. I beg to differ a tad with Hudson in this Real News Network video regarding his third economic story. The US had already pushed Europe to side with it against Russia when it hit Russia with economic sanctions. The US had similarly declared an economic war of sorts against China with its “pivot […]

Matthew Cunningham-Cook: Five Reasons Tariffs Are Great

Saying tariffs could be a good thing is close to a taboo in economics. Is that distaste justified?

Capitalism – Not China – Is to Blame for the Current Global Economic Decline

Capitalism’s “recovery” now proceeds like another speeding train headed toward contradiction and catastrophe.

America’s Double Standard on Trade

Quelle surprise! The US fell all over itself to give Japan breaks on agricultural trade to cinch a TPP deal. But developing countries? Fuggedaboudit.

Oxford City Football Club and its Onanistic Owner, Thomas Guerriero

Let’s start our latest illustration of how easily a reckless, internationally mobile crook can sidestep national regulators, with a helpful observation by Bess Levin at Dealbreaker in May 2010: Let it be known: if you are not interested in having your supervisor (circle all that apply:) send you videos of himself masturbating, texts about the […]

Michael Hudson: The IMF Changes its Rules to Isolate China and Russia

How the West is deploying the IMF to fight the nightmare scenario of US geopolitical strategists: foreign economic independence from the US.

Labor Advisory Committee Report on TPP Synthesizes Everything Wrong About the Trade Deal

By David Dayen, a lapsed blogger and author of Chain of Title, to be released May 2016. Follow him on Twitter @ddayen. The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office has been maligned for its network of Trade Advisory Committees, allegedly “independent” counsel for trade agreements. The Washington Post did the best work on the Advisory Committees back […]

Matias Vernego: Neoliberalism Resurgent: What to Expect in Argentina after Macri’s Victory

The election of businessman Mauricio Macri to the presidency in Argentina signals a rightward turn in the country and, perhaps, in South America more generally. Macri, the candidate of the right-wing Compromiso para el cambio (Commitment to Change) party, defeated Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli (the Peronist party candidate) in November’s runoff election, by less than 3% of the vote.

Connecting American Foreign Policy to Economic Policy

Can American foreign policy be made to work better for US citizens (outside the arms industry) and the rest of the world?

Japan Proves that “Fix Trade” Sales Pitch for TPP, TTIP, and TISA is Wrong

Funny how foreign firms have failed to break into Japan for reasons having nothing to do with regulatory barriers, which calls the logic of “trade” deals like the TPP into question.

Matthew Cunningham-Cook: How the TPP Will Create a Medical Privacy Hellscape

Yet another reason to oppose this truly awful, anti-people deal.

The TPP is a Multi-Dimensional Simultaneous Equation

How Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s remarks to the DIet about the TPP reveal a lot about the aims of this deal and its vulnerabilities.

Ilargi: 9/11, 3/11, 7/7, 11/13; New York, Madrid, London, Paris

Better to wait a day before writing, after a night like that. What does one write after such a night anyway? And why write anything at all if you can be dead sure to always antagonize some one on some side of some spectrum, ideological or not, no matter what you write, unless you tag some safe official line, and even then, or especially then?