New Zealand Foreign Trusts: the Scandals, the Reforms, and Some Throat-Clearing From the EU
NZ’s promised Foreign Trust reforms still don’t look quite right
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Brexit Realism: Maybe Voters Were Not Dumb
By David Miles, Imperial College Business School. Originally published as a chapter in the VoxEU ebook, Brexit Beckons: Thinking ahead by leading economists, available to download free of charge To some, the Brexit referendum was a failure by economists to persuade UK voters that leaving the EU would entail major economic costs. This column argues […]
Read more...Did Germany Just Blink?
Germany just cut Spain and Portugal some budgetary slack. What’s driving this unexpected outbreak of reasonableness?
Read more...John Helmer: The New Byzantine Alliance – Will Russia and Turkey Revolutionize the Center of the Old World?
Putin and Erdogan are meeting in August. Cooperation between Russia and Turkey would represent a major geopolitical realignment.
Read more...New Zealand Offshore Company Agents: Mossack Fonseca is Far From Alone
The global footprint of agents selling NZ companies and trusts
Read more...Another Nail in the Brexit Fantasy Coffin: Germany’s Car Makers Are Not Cowed
More evidence that the idea that the UK would have a negotiating advantage in Brexit talks is not well founded.
Read more...What Next for the EU?
An informative, high-level overview of how the EU got to where it is now, its internal contradictions, and the prospects for resolving them.
Read more...Investment Implications of the Rise of the New Lumpenproletariat and Political Shocks
How rising numbers of the new lumpenproletariat, meaning contingent and least-paid workers, are reshaping economies and politics.
Read more...Dodgy New Zealand Companies: Mapping Their Global Footprint Since 2009
New Zealand’s scam companies: a map of their global footprint
Read more...More Doubts About Brexit Fantasies
The UK still appears to be ignoring the EU’s negotiating boundaries on Brexit.
Read more...China Destabilizes Global Economy by Exporting Deflation Through Currency Devaluation
China is behaving badly by trying to maintain growth at the cost of worsening deflation in the rest of the world.
Read more...The UK Vote to Leave European Union
A judicious, high level overview of the Brexit vote and its implications, the big one being that it moves Britain to the right.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Lanches Campaign Against the TPP
Elizabeth Warren takes on a new target and goes against Clinton on the TPP.
Read more...Crisis After Brexit: Let Us Put An End to the Old Europe of Denigrators
Europe’s tall order for combatting Brexit: “What is called for is a union so good that people will want more of it.”
Read more...Bill Black: BREXIT – Tony Blair
Tony Blair sides with the bankers and against the popular will. Quelle surprise!
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