Yanis Varoufakis and David McWilliams – The Guardian Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams on the hope for a global new deal David McWilliams: I think it is fair to say that capitalism – in… Continue Reading
By Bill Blain* – The Morning Porridge “Let us sing more cheerful songs, more songs full of joy!” I am wondering if my FT App is broken? I opened it this morning and the front pages of the Pink Un… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – Creative Common The new terms could be harnessed for local governments to own and operate their own banks. Congress seems to be at war with the states. Only $150 billion of its nearly $3 trillion coronavirus… Continue Reading
by DEVNET JAPAN In March 2013, I established Devnet Tokyo, now Devnet Japan, as the East Asian country’s sole branch of Devnet International, which, since 1995, enjoys a Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Before… Continue Reading
FROM PILLAGE TO SECURITY. LIFE FOR ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH Three scourges are devastating the life of the Earth’s Inhabitants – the Covid-19 pandemic ( more than 230,000 deaths). The explosion and spread of the coronavirus are, according… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures A riot broke out in a poor, predominantly Muslim neighborhood north of Paris over the weekend. The immediate cause was a traffic offense and a violation of the coronavirus lockdown. The deeper cause was… Continue Reading
By Marshall Auerback* – Independent Media Institute The upheavals in the oil market are flipping the world on its head and again proving that rational industrial policy is a better guidance. When a staple commodity collapses to negative value it… Continue Reading
Adam Tooze* – The Guardian The pandemic has necessitated huge borrowing – but post-crisis austerity would be the very worst way to deal with it We do not know how this pandemic will end. We do know that we will… Continue Reading
By Nadia Batok* Impact of the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic on aviation Aviation is undoubtedly one of the sectors hit hardest by the outbreak of COVID-19. After first appearing in Wuhan in China in December 2019, coronavirus has spread to at least… Continue Reading
By George Friedman*- Geopolitical Futures A recession is an essential part of the business cycle. Among other things it culls the weaker businesses and redistributes capital and labor for better uses. It is painful but necessary and it ends as… Continue Reading
The economist The economic crisis will expose a decade’s worth of corporate fraud Downturns are accounting crooks’ worst enemy When bernie madoff owned up to a $65bn Ponzi scheme in December 2008, it was not out of guilt. He knew the… Continue Reading
K.P. Kannan* These are not normal times for any country in this world. In one swoop Covid-19 virus has proved how fast it can globalize and integrate all countries and people, but in a disastrous way. While the western countries… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures A few weeks ago, I laid out a model for thinking about the coronavirus crisis. I argued that there were four structures operating: medical, economic, social and military, with the political structure attempting to… Continue Reading
by Tyler Durden – ZEROHEDGE (*) Authored by Tuomas Malinen (**) via GnSEconomics.com Country after country has reported extremely dark economic numbers. The gigantic jobless claims, 6.6 million from the U.S. last week, are just the tip of the iceberg.… Continue Reading
By Beatrix Hoffman* – Newsweek Even as they put their own lives on the line, health care workers are confronted with another, agonizing fear: that they will have to make choices about who lives and who dies. Rationing of masks… Continue Reading
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* 6 April 2020 – Today’s cultural, political and ideological debates are imbued with a strange opacity, the result of their remove from the concrete day-to-day experience of the vast majority of people — ordinary citizens, or… Continue Reading
DutchNews.nl The Dutch government has been criticised by domestic politicians, MEPs, and Italian mayors and officials for its tough line on EU measures to support countries hard hit by the coronacrisis, and for showing a lack of solidarity to its… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* The border between the United States and Canada has been closed. I don’t recall that ever happening before; I’m not sure what it is supposed to achieve, given that the coronavirus is rampant in both countries, and… Continue Reading
Bonnie Kristian * -Newsweek The deterioration of U.S.-Chinese relations over who is to blame for the novel coronavirus may be a warning of things to come. Beijing has spent recent weeks in a concerted effort to shift blame for its… Continue Reading
By Brian Wong – The Diplomat, Asia-Pacific By shipping medical supplies to European countries, China is seeking to boost its image as a responsible global leader. The COVID-19 outbreak has taken the world by storm, leading to a near-total standstill in… Continue Reading
