Economics
Thomas Fazi: Who is Winning the Scramble for Africa?
Africa is the stage of the New “Great Game” of the 21st century — the struggle between Western countries, China and Russia for influence Read HERE A.H. Zaki for Cairo Punch
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Fake News
David Jamieson – Conspiracism is Rife, and Not Just in Scotland
Around the world conspiracy theories are resurgent, and the political centre is the most paranoid of all David Jamieson is the editor of Scottish website Conter Cross-posted from Conter The conspiracy theory has become the final […]
Energy
George Wuerthner – What’s Wrong with Biomass Burning? Everything!
The only thing “green” about biomass energy or fuel is the subsidies that government agencies bestow George Wuerthner has published 36 books including Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Cross-posted from Counterpunch Carvarsa/Creative Commons Presently […]
Economics
Pia Malaney – Markets and Artificial Intelligence, Some Misgivings
What happens when we fuse, for the first time, artificially intelligent agents into either our market or political structures? Pia Malaney is Co-Founder and Director of The Center for Innovation, Growth and Society and Senior […]
Globalisation
German Foreign Policy: The Consequences of a War against China
Military experts, quoted by ABC, Australian public radio, agreed that the West could not win such a war, but Australia would have to suffer tremendous losses Read Here Chinese People’s Liberation Army soldiers
Economics
Simon Wren-Lewis: Which OECD country is the highest social spender?
That France is top is probably not a huge surprise , but that the United States is second might astonish Read Here
Economics
Dean Baker – Imagine a World Where CEOs Get Paid $3 Million a Year
Being a well-paid CEO means something very different today than it did fifty years ago Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from the CEPR Blog […]
Economics
Neil M Davies – Are the Pension Regulator’s “practical men” responsible for the UK’s productivity crisis?
There may be a link between the UK’s low productivity and the policy of defined benefit pension funds divesting significant sums from UK companies Neil M Davies is Professor of Medical Statistics at UCL Cross-posted […]
Corruption
Lin William Cong, Xi Li, Ke Tang, Yang Yang – Wash trading in centralised crypto exchanges
There is an increasing demand for stricter regulation on centralised crypto exchanges Lin William Cong is Rudd Family Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at Cornell University, Xi Li is Lecturer in Finance at […]
Finance
Michael T. Klare: Girding for Wars of the Future with an endless Arms Race
Many of the billions of dollars being tacked onto US military spending are intended to procure exactly the items you would expect to use in a wider war in the late 2020s or 2030s. Read […]