By Anna Isaac – The Telegraph Britain has failed to make meaningful progress towards a free trade deal with the United States amid “chronic” staffing shortages and communication breakdowns in Whitehall, according to a cache of documents seen by The Telegraph.… Continue Reading
By Paul Krugman – The New York Times The pain is real, but the coercion isn’t. Donald Trump’s declaration that “trade wars are good, and easy to win” will surely go down in the history books as a classic utterance… Continue Reading
By Fernando Ayala* – Wall Street International Magazine The former Soviet republic returns to its origins at the hand of China In Uzbekistan, in the heart of central Asia, is the mythical Samarkand, whose name is associated with a beautiful… Continue Reading
Editorial – The Guardian The climate crisis underlines the need for effective global economic leadership. The US president makes this harder, but so do China and several others Ever since the G20 of leading global economies was founded, its summits… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – Truthdig Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies, as has already been demonstrated—not in the United States but in China. Unlike in the U.S., where numerous firms feast on fees from… Continue Reading
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – The Telegraph Europe has been warned. Any use of monetary levers to hold down the euro exchange rate will be deemed a provocation by the Trump administration. Further cuts in interest rates to minus 0.5pc or beyond… Continue Reading
By Michael Hudson * – Naked Capitalism President Trump has threatened China’s President Xi that if they don’t meet and talk at the upcoming G20 meetings in Japan, June 29-30, the United States will not soften its tariff war and… Continue Reading
By Tom O’Connor* – Newsweek President Donald Trump’s attempts to force Russia and China into political submission through economic restrictions have helped to empower budding bonds being forged between the top two U.S. rivals. At a time when the Trump… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Michael Lim Mah Hui (*) KUALA LUMPUR and PENANG, Jun 2019 (IPS) – The emergence and growth of financialization from the 1980s has been driven by several factors operating at various levels – national and… Continue Reading
By Alan Rappeport* – The New York Times FUKUOKA, Japan — Global finance leaders meeting in Japan this weekend said they were increasingly worried that the trade dispute between the United States and China, which shows no signs of abating,… Continue Reading
By Margaret O’Mara* – The New York Times History shows that big businesses profit most when tariffs reign. America is entering a new era of tariffs. President Trump is in no hurry to resolve the trade dispute with China, he… Continue Reading
By Paul Krugman*- Opinion Columnist- The New York Times Why “tariff” isn’t a “beautiful word.” Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on Mexican exports unless our neighbor does something — he hasn’t specified what — to stop the flow of asylum-seekers is… Continue Reading
By GURSHABAD GROVER* – The Indian Express India needs to prove company aids Chinese government, or risk playing into US hands. The Trump administration has not only passed orders restricting the US government and its departments from procuring networking equipment from… Continue Reading
By David E. Sanger* – The New York Times President Trump has finally succeeded in building his wall: not the one he keeps demanding on the southwestern border, but a far more complex barrier meant to block China’s national telecommunications… Continue Reading
By Mushahid Hussain * To mark the 40th anniversary of China’s Reform and Opening up Policy, initiated by the great visionary leader Deng Xiaoping in 1978, The New York Times started a series of articles on November 18, 2018, beginning with the… Continue Reading
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism This is a useful article as far as it goes, but it may not go far enough for the taste of some readers. The first is that it may miss the real source… Continue Reading
By Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson – The New York Times WASHINGTON — Trade talks between China and the United States ended on Friday without a deal, just hours after President Trump renewed his trade war with China by raising… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, May 7 2019 (IPS) – Over the last four decades, growing concentration of market power in the hands of oligopolies, if not monopolies, has been greatly enabled by… Continue Reading
by Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge (*) Authored by Thierry Meyssan (**) via The Voltaire Network Since the Treaty of Maastricht, all the members of the European Union (including the neutral countries) have placed their defences under the suzerainty of… Continue Reading
BAHER KAMAL – Wall Street International Magazine It takes around 7,500 litres of water to make just one single pair of jeans Paris, Milan, New York, Tokyo… These are just some of the world’s most prestigious fashion catwalks. There, and… Continue Reading
