David Cay Johnston on the Perils of Our Growing Inequality
David Cay Johnston is a clear and lively conversationalist, and I anticipate readers will enjoy his discussion of his work over the last 20 years on inequality.
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New Zealand: the Shell Company Incorporation Franchises (V) (and Panama and Switzerland)
Yet more live connections between New Zealand companies and international organized crime, plus some Panama and Switzerland, too
Read more...Wolf Richter: World Trade Suddenly Slumps (Just Forget ‘Escape Velocity’)
The US economy, and by extension the world economy, is desperately waiting for the spring escape velocity to finally kick in. But the latest world trade statistics say it’s not happening.
Read more...Global Food Security Needs States to Ally with Family Farmers
Yves here. If you live in an advanced economy, and are at least middle income, you probably don’t give much thought to the availability of food. Expect that to change in the coming years. Agribusiness is a major driver of food insecurity. Successful experiments show that relocalization of food production can be an effective remedy.
Read more...New Zealand: the Shell Company Incorporation Franchises (IV) (and Latvia)
New Zealand: more dubious companies in the New Zealand register, and another elusive company incorporator
Read more...America: Europe and Canada’s Willing Chump
How America facilitates a labor and environmental race to the bottom, helping companies based in Europe, Canada, and Mexico.
Read more...R. Hunter Biden Should Declare Who Really Owns His New Ukrainian Employer, Burisma Holdings
Trying to pierce the murk around the new Ukrainian venture of Vice President Biden’s son R. Hunter Biden
Read more...Michael Hudson: The New Cold War’s Ukraine Gambit
Michael Hudson discusses the economic and political motives behind making Ukraine a focal point in a new cold war, such as the fact that the Ukraine is an important supplier of military equipment to Russia.
Read more...New Zealand: the Shell Company Incorporation Franchises (III)
We remind the New Zealand government that a shell company network linked to $10-100Bn of alleged moneylaundering is still active in New Zealand.
Read more...The Chronic Exporters’ Curse?
Why the much-envied position of being a chronic exporter isn’t quite a bed of roses.
Read more...New Zealand: the Shell Company Incorporation Franchises (II) (and Ukraine)
The nuts-and bolts view of these looting mechanisms shows how corruption actually works.
Read more...Has America’s Use of Finance as a Foreign Policy Tool Backfired?
How America’ s abject fealty to the financial services industry, and its promotion of open capital markets in emerging economies, privatization and its tolerance of tax havens, have destroyed US credibility in Eastern Europe.
Read more...New Zealand: the Shell Company Incorporation Franchises (I)
How New Zealand shell company incorporations help tax evaders and scammers.
Read more...Mirable Dictu! Americans Diss Obama’s Ukraine Adventurism, Want US to Play More Modest Global Role
Wow, Obama is really losing it. He can’t even manage a good war scare any more.
Read more...Did Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Serve Obama Beefsteak-Flavored Revenge for US Trade Representative Froman’s TPP Rudeness?
Yves here. I trust you’ll enjoy this long-form account of how President Obama put his foot in mouth and chewed in front of Japan’s Prime Minister Abe when he merely thought he was eating steak.
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