Apple’s “Crush” Ad, Rentierism, and the End of Capitalism?
Apple’s dystopian ode to rentierism.
Read more...Category Archives: Globalization
Elections and Devaluations
Quelle surprise! Regimes facing elections often goose their economies, leading to currency appreciation pre-vote and devaluations afterwards.
Read more...What Is Critical Global Geopolitics?
How the fall of the USSR reshaped thinking in the discipline of geopolitics.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
There is perilous little that is novel in modern finance. Our offshore, as in tax havens, have analogues in the ancient world.
Read more...How Trade Liberalisation Kicked Away African Development Ladder
How trade liberalization cut Africa’s modest production capacities, industry and food security.
Read more...Populism and State Power
A hard look at the use of the notion of populism in recent political discourse, starting with the curious lack of self-professed populists.
Read more...European Economic Security in an Age of Interdependence
Europe leaders and experts are spooked by what Covid and Ukraine war, erm, energy actions have done to their supply sources. What to do?
Read more...Why the IEA is Wrong About Peak Oil Demand
Why peak oil, like Godot, keeps not arriving.
Read more...Trump Promises to Deport All Undocumented Immigrants, Resurrecting a 1950s Strategy − But It Didn’t Work Then and Is Less Likely to Do So Now
A clinical look at the viability of Trump’s illegal immigrant deportation plan.
Read more...Tuberculosis Emergency in California After Death in Homeless Shelter Outbreak; Follows Chicago Migrant Shelter Cluster and Earlier IM Doc Anecdata
The rise in tuberculosis cases as an indictment of US public health and immigration policy.
Read more...The Problem of Feeding a Still-Growing Population: Nitrogen, Agrochemical Corporations and International Trade: A Perilous Mix
Industrial farming, with its international trade and specialization, has disturbed the nitrogen cycle, undermining the feeding of the world.
Read more...Turkiye Suspends All Trade With Israel in Surprise New Blow; Israel Threatens Retaliation
Turkiye is kicking Israel in a weak spot: its economy. How much might this trade freeze hurt?
Read more...After Much Posturing, US Imposes (So Far) Underwhelming Sanctions Against China for Russia Trade
After sending Yellen and Blinken to China to make threats, the Administration has imposed some strikingly weak sanctions
Read more...“The Four Key Reasons Why The U.S. Will Never Stop Targeting Russia’s LNG Sector”
The US has launched an LNG war against Russia. How likely is it to prevail?
Read more...Consumer Boycotts Can Inflict More Pain on Israel-Backing Companies than Divestiture
A look at some of the courses of action to impose costs on Israel and its backers, here, economic costs.
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