Business
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‘Tax the rich’?
Demanding tax increases on the rich is back in fashion – both in the corridors of the House of Representatives…
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GDP rise may save economy from a double dip recession but scars will be revealed
While the economy has likely escaped fears of a double dip recession following the release of June quarter GDP figures…
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Soros’ Dream: To Turn China Into a Neoliberal Grabitization Opportunity
… Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has collided with economic reality. Michael Hudson CounterPunch His crackdown on private enterprise has been…
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Is Norway the New East India Company?
In the 18th century, the English-led East India Company gradually managed to control most of India. Branko Milanovic The Globalist…
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Work on the Nord Stream 2 section in Denmark’s exclusive economic zone concludes
The construction in the exclusive economic zone of Denmark of a section of 147 kilometers of the second branch of Nord…
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A Climate Stat We Can’t Afford to Overlook: CEO Pay
The first — from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC — hit on Monday with a worldwide thunderclap. Sam…
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Weidmann: ECB can’t protect governments from higher borrowing costs if inflation spikes
The European Central Bank won’t be able to protect governments from higher borrowing costs if inflation spikes, Bundesbank President Jens…
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Ecuadorian Navy Monitors Fishing Fleet Approaching Galápagos
In late June and early July, more than 100 Chinese-flagged vessels crossed from the Atlantic to the Pacific to join…
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Draghi’s next stress test: Selling the world’s oldest bank
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi is facing heat — even from within the ranks of his own governing coalition —…
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Four clothing businesses that could lead us away from the horrors of fast fashion
Resources are finite – as is the space for landfill – but too often clothes shopping is about buying cheap…
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EU rebuffs UK demand for new post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland
London stopped short of suspending the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol – introduced at the start of the year, and which…
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The ‘car park rorts’ story is scandalous. But it will keep happening unless we close grant loopholes
The Australian National Audit Office told a parliamentary committee a list of the top 20 marginal electorates guided the distribution…
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Israel threatens legal action over Ben & Jerry’s boycott
Israel warned the consumer goods giant Unilever on Tuesday that it was considering a legal response against one of its…
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Companies can ban headscarves at work, top EU court rules
Private companies can prohibit employees from wearing headscarves at work, the EU’s top court ruled on Thursday. Liv Klingert Politico…
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Malta eyes economic potential as it prepares to declare Exclusive Economic Zone
Malta has started the process to declare an Exclusive Economic Zone in the central Mediterranean, with the potential of extending…
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Can Europe escape Gazprom’s energy stranglehold?
Is Russia building up political pressure in order to push through the operation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline? Andrey…
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