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 love story and is one of the oldest…
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 have mostly been convergent…
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 handling and processing payments, in…
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 will be scrutinized for currency…
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 economic sanctions against Chinese exports and…
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 administration was waging…
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 international, ideological and political, and…
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, could propel the world economy into a…
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 is adamant about imposing tariffs on Mexico, and…
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 almost surely illegal…
