Category: Economy
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The Perfect Storm of Logistics
Analysts have been waiting for the perfect storm for a long time, and it has finally arrived. If you look at it a little bit closer, it is a shocking … Keep reading »
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Bargaining Over Corporate Investment: Innovation or Trap?
Ever since the sit-down strikes of the 1930s, the cycle of ‘Big Three’ auto bargaining has been a major economic and political event, an indicator of the progress of the … Keep reading »
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How Not To Fund Infrastructure
Recycling is supposed to be a good thing, so when the federal Liberals quietly announced that “asset recycling” would be part of their strategy for meeting their much-ballyhooed infrastructure promises, … Keep reading »
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Rethinking Recovery: Poverty Chains and Global Capitalism
Reorienting value generated within ‘global poverty chains’ is essential to improve the lives of an impoverished world labour force. Contemporary global capitalism is characterized by extreme wealth concentration and a … Keep reading »
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Neoliberalism’s World of Corruption
The Panama Papers’ revelations about the rich and powerful hiding untold billions in ‘offshore’ tax havens may be shocking, but it’s hardly a surprise to anyone who knows the first … Keep reading »
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Brewing the Right Cup of Coffee
Gavin Fridell interviewed by Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete Coffee is one of the most valuable commodities exported by the global South (seconded only by oil and illegal drugs), generating billions of dollars in … Keep reading »
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Austerity Gathers Pace in Volatile South Africa
A wedge is being quickly driven through Pretoria’s political elite, splitting even those who worked closely in the murky 1980s Durban spy scene during the fight against apartheid. Amongst the … Keep reading »
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‘No Admittance Except on Business’: How P3s are Produced and the Secret of Their Profit Making
“Accompanied by Mr. Moneybags … we [enter] into the hidden abode of production, on whose threshold there stares us in the face ‘No admittance except on business’. Here we shall … Keep reading »
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What You Need to Know About the Oil Price War
The dramatic crash in the price of oil is rewiring the circuits of global capitalism by creating enormous volatility in the world’s stock exchanges, hammering banks that made billions of … Keep reading »
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Austerity Unbroken
Jannis Milios interviewed by Alp Kayserilioğlu Much coverage of the Greek debt crisis has focused on the ‘troika’ of international creditors and German chancellor Angela Merkel – a striking image of … Keep reading »
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The Davos Blind Eye: How the Rich Eat the Poor and the World
The just-released Oxfam Davos report An Economy For the 1% which the mass media have ignored arrestingly shows that 62 individuals (388 in 2010) now own more wealth than 50 … Keep reading »
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Naked Neoliberalism: Canadian Foreign Policy under Harper
Since the Conservative government of Stephen Harper came to power in 2006, shifts in Canadian foreign policy have been a flashpoint of debate in Parliament, the media, and civil society. … Keep reading »