The BBC follows up on the billion-dollar Moldovan bank scam, and Naked Capitalism kicks off a new series on money laundering in the UK
Read more...The fallout from GXG Markets closure begins: Capital Venture Europe files a lawsuit
Read more...We don’t have the TPP text, ISDS is just as bad as it’s always been, and deals like this have been beaten before.
Read more...The refugee fleeing from the Middle East to Europe are a small trickle compared to the huge flow of people displaced globally by wars and conflict.
Read more...Who needs balanced trade? It’s time to challenge the premises of “trade” deals like the TransPacific Partnership.
Read more...Uruguay is the only country that has had any kind of public discussion about TiSA and its potentially game-changing implications.
Read more...A couple weeks back, the Electronic Frontier Foundation released 124 pages of emails obtained in a FOIA request, asking for any communications between officials at the U.S. Trade Representative’s office and corporate lobbyists. The emails are mostly requests to set up meetings or share information between USTR leadership and representatives from either trade associations (The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Telecommunications Industry Association, Coalition of Services Industries, etc) or corporations directly (Cigna, General Electric, Liberty Mutual Insurance, MasterCard, AT&T, etc).
But Steve Stewart, Director of Market Access and Trade for IBM Governmental Programs – in other words, IBM’s in-house lobbying shop – takes this relationship-building a step further. He enlisted USTR to help him get his company’s narrative out.
Read more...Was Star Trek wrong in promoting the notion that peaceful exploration is possible?
Read more...Why “neoliberal” is the framework that best describes our new, post 1980 form of capitalism.
Read more...How military bases cement US power.
Read more...Immigration could turn around Germany’s main weakness – its precarious demographic situation.
Read more...A nation’s hard power is based on its ability to coerce, while its soft power depends on the attractiveness of its culture, political ideals, and policies. This column shows that a country’s soft power has measureable effects on its exports. Countries that are admired for their positive global influence export more, holding other things constant.
Read more...Examining an excellent in-depth investigation by Reuters into global financial stability issues, and the role of tax havens in this giant game of pain and plunder.
Read more...Perhaps Angela Merkel thought we didn’t yet know how full of it she is. Perhaps that’s why she said yesterday with regards to Europe’s refugee crisis that “Everything must move quickly,” only to call an EU meeting a full two weeks later. That announcement show one thing: Merkel doesn’t see this as a crisis. If she did, she would have called for such a meeting a long time ago, and not some point far into the future.
Read more...A new study has important implications for IMF policies as well as for Greece, both “reformers” and those who advocate a Grexit.
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