Food, the UK and Brexit: An Even Messier Reprise of Corn Laws Politics?
Surprisingly, or maybe not so, food is emerging as a flash point in Brexit politics.
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Cobalt Production as the Hidden Choke Point on Mass Conversion to Electric Vehicles
Going from the internal combustion engine to electric vehicles is likely to hit a cobalt road block.
Read more...US to Bar its Citizens from Travel to North Korea: What Comes Next?
Today North Korea, tomorrow– who knows? US ban on travel by its citizens to North Korea revives a problematic Cold War practice.
Read more...Government’s Brexit Repeal Bill ‘Power Grab’ Threatens UK Environment Regulations
Brexit will require massive, rushed conforming changes to UK environmental law. Transparency will suffer, with dodgy backroom deals likely.
Read more...One-Month Anniversary of the Grenfell Tower Fire: Status Update
The current state of play at Grenfell Tower, with a question yet to be answered.
Read more...Single Market Maze Contains Clues to Complex Brexit Puzzle
Brexit boosters have sidestepped the issue of reconstituting trading arrangements, a major lapse.
Read more...More Brexit Backpedaling, UK May Relent on ECJ Red Line for “Transition Period”
Yet more Brexit bad news just before Theresa May is set to present her Great Repeal Bill.
Read more...Inequality: How We Got Here, and What Should Be Done
More discussion of the causes of rising inequality and possible remedies.
Read more...Bill Black: Those to Blame for the Grenfell Fire Victims Include Tony Blair
The victims of Grenfell were condemned to death by an ideology and a rejection of science and the value of human life that captured the Tories, Lib-Dems, and “New Labor.”
Read more...Bill Black: Bank Whistleblowers United Makes Its Latest Lemon Award – to the UK
The UK rejects the idea of rewarding whistleblowers, despite the fact that the US experience shows it to be a sound way to catch abuses.
Read more...Can EU Actors Keep Using Common Law After Brexit?
The widespread use of English law in financial contracts poses yet another set of tricky post-Brexit issues.
Read more...Trip Report for Naked Capitalism London Meetup
Brexit, Corbyn’s brilliant campaign, London real estate, conversations with cab drivers, and more!
Read more...Brexit and the Future of the Irish Border
Why there is no good solution of the Irish border problem in Brexit, and how the Tories’ new buddies, the DUP, have contradictory goals.
Read more...EU Firms Up Brexit Bill Negotiation Position: Ask of €99.6 Billion Gross Liabilities
Some of the finer points of Brexit negotiations come into focus.
Read more...The Fiscal Policy Experience Since the Great Recession
Why fiscal policy measures after the crisis were too weak.
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