Faster Fashion Cycle Accelerates
Sustainable fashion initiatives face huge obstacles in displacing fast fashion’s popularity, despite fair labor and environmental concerns.
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Bad Bank Proposal for India: A Partial Jubilee Financed by Zero Coupon Perpetual Bonds
A proposal for a partial jubilee as a way to clean up banks overburdened with bad loans.
Read more...India’s “Bold Experiment With Cash”: Debunking Myths
India radical demonetization policy: Is this a decisive action against the black economy or an ill-considered, damagingly arbitrary act?
Read more...Cringley: How Silicon Valley Can Sidestep Trump H-1B Visa Restrictions
Why restrictions on H-1B visas may not do much for tech workers.
Read more...Demonetisation: India’s Stress Test
Did India’s sudden removal of 86% of hard currency from circulation achieve its aim of fighting corruption? And how much did it hurt growth?
Read more...Fast Fashion: A Few Thoughts Sparked by Recent News
Fast fashion is flourishing in the US, despite problematic labor practices and the considerable environmental costs it generates.
Read more...Waste Not, Want Not: Right to Repair Laws on Agenda in Some States
Right to repair laws are back on the agenda in five states. These measures would reduce costs and waste, and promote local repair services.
Read more...The Global War on Cash – India’s Demonetization Debacle
India’s demonetization debacle has destroyed growth in what was the world’s fastest growing economy while failing to ferret out black money.
Read more...The Global War on Cash – Lessons from History
Introduction Regular readers will be fully up to speed on the Reserve Bank of India’s botched attempt at a handbrake turn style demonetisation thanks to Jerri-Lynn Scofield’s thorough coverage (see here, here and here for more background on this sorry tale). But the Indian government’s attempt at implementing a strategy of moving an economy away from physical cash […]
Read more...Apple Chases Indian Smartphone Market By Asking Modi Government for Manufacturing Deal
Apple seeks financial incentives to scale up penetration of the second largest world smartphone market, where it has less than a 5% share.
Read more...India: Demonetization and its Discontents
Why have India’s citizens not reacted more forcefully to the huge disruption created by a misguided demonetization program?
Read more...India’s Cash Crisis May Take Months, Not Weeks To Resolve
India has not undertaken necessary logistics for implementing demonetization. Currency shortages may take months, not weeks, to resolve.
Read more...India’s Cash Crackdown: Chaos Continues
India’s cash crackdown has caused widespread economic suffering and chaos, unduly hurting the poor, and sparked some political pushback.
Read more...India Moves to Severely Restrict Use of Cash, Forcing Much of Economy Into Barter
India cancels currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 In an attempt to crack down on black money, corruption, counterfeiting, and terrorism.
Read more...The High Hidden Costs of Fast Fashion
Fast fashion imposes high hidden costs, especially to the environmental. Waste, pollution, and a high carbon footprint are the most serious. Consumers can make choices that mitigate some of these deleterious effects.
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