The victory of the right-wing candidate George Simion in the first round of Romania’s rerun presidential election has been celebrated by some on the right as a populist victory. By this account, the EU- and NATO-aligned forces that overturned the country’s previous election in November have failed to turn back the growing backlash against the establishment. But a deeper analysis suggests a more complex and troubling picture.
Corruption
ProPublica: Why Aren’t Hedge Funds Required to Fight Money Laundering?
A long-standing effort to make big investment funds abide by the same rules that banks and brokerages follow has bogged down. The fund industry says it supports the rules — it just has a few […]
Economics
Chris Dillow: HOW TO DEFEND CAPITALISM
“Capitalism hasn’t come into doubt because people woke up stupid one morning. It’s in question because it has stopped delivering the goods.” Read here
Corruption
Lee Jones, Shahar Hameiri: COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed massive failures of governance at the global and national levels. Global health governance failed rapidly, with action quickly becoming nationally based, uncoordinated, and often zero-sum. However, domestic health governance also […]
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