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What Happens When Economists Talk Politics
What Happens When Economists Talk Politics As the “Varoufakis Files” provide everyone interested in the Greek tragi-comedy with an additional million pages of intriguing fodder -we all really needed that added layer of murky conspiracy, re: the Watergate tapes-, a different question has been playing in my head. Again. That is: Why are economists discussing […]
The Rise Of The Yuan Continues: LME To Accept Renminbi As Collateral
The Rise Of The Yuan Continues: LME To Accept Renminbi As Collateral As far-fetched as the notion may be to those who are wedded – by choice, by misguided beliefs, or by virtue of being completely beholden to the perpetuation of the status quo – to idea that the dollar will forever retain its status […]
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks peak as Canada eyes election timing
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks peak as Canada eyes election timing ‘It’s hard to put out a press release during an election, let alone a 21st century trade agreement’ Pity Ed Fast’s campaign manager in Abbotsford, B.C. While most MPs running for re-election are focused on campaigning, Stephen Harper’s trade minister is in Maui, Hawaii, this […]
It’s really very simple
It’s really very simple There are times when a loud cry of “The emperor has no clothes!” can be most copacetic. And so, let me point out something quite simple, yet very important. The old world order, to which we became accustomed over the course of the 1990s and the 2000s, its crises and its […]
The Politics of Coercion in Greece
The Politics of Coercion in Greece This is a transcript of Zoe Konstantopoulou’s important July 22nd speech in the Hellenic Parliament. I confess that the consciously, politically and personally painful moments which we are being called on to experience in parliament during this parliamentary term are multiplying. From my capacity as Speaker of the House, I have just sent […]
Europe’s New Colonialism: ECB Rejects Greek Request To Reopen Stock Market
Europe’s New Colonialism: ECB Rejects Greek Request To Reopen Stock Market It has been one month since Greek capital controls were imposed, and as we explained earlier, Greece is nowhere closer to having its deposit limits lifted. In fact, with several more months of capital controls at least, the Greek banks are likely to suffer […]
Iran Deal is About Staving Off the Coming Oil Shock
Iran Deal is About Staving Off the Coming Oil Shock The US wants to use Iran to sustain its regional influence in the face of the next global economic recession The Iran nuclear deal signals a major shift in the geopolitics of the Middle East. Integral to the equation is oil, economics, terror – and […]
Saudis Expand Price War Downstream
Saudis Expand Price War Downstream The undisputed king of oil and gas is making some moves that could change the face of the global refining sector. In June 2015, Saudi Arabia pumped a record 10.564 million barrels a day, a record level. As if being the world’s biggest exporter of oil was not enough, the […]
The Number One Lesson From Athens
The Number One Lesson From Athens There’s arguably nothing that’s been more hurtful -in more ways than one- to Greece and its Syriza government over the past six months, than the lack of support from the rest of Europe. And it’s not just the complete lack of support from other governments -that might have been […]
The Dangers of European Dis-Union
The Dangers of European Dis-Union The “European Project” is under unprecedented stress from fissures both east-and-west (over the Ukraine crisis) and north-and-south (over the Greek and refugee crises) – and it’s unclear whether the Continent’s bureaucrats can keep the European Union from splintering apart, as Nat Parry explains. The near collapse of the Greek economy and the […]
Turkey Permits U.S. To Use Its Airbase For Air Strikes Against Syria
Turkey Permits U.S. To Use Its Airbase For Air Strikes Against Syria Earlier we reported that in an apparent retaliation against Monday’s alleged suicide bombing and today’s follow up killing of a Turkish soldier on the border with Syria, the Turkish army launched what under normal conditions would be deemed a land invasion of Turkey […]
Agriculture Issues Just the Tip of the TPP Iceberg
Agriculture Issues Just the Tip of the TPP Iceberg Trade deal could slam Canadians with rising consumer, health care and education costs The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed trade agreement that encompasses nearly 40 per cent of world GDP, heads to Hawaii later this month for ministerial-level negotiations. According to media reports, this may […]
Falsifying History In Behalf Of Agendas
Falsifying History In Behalf Of Agendas In an article on April 13 ( http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/04/13/power-lies/ ) I used the so-called Civil War and the myths with which court historians have encumbered that war to show how history is falsified in order to serve agendas. I pointed out that it was a war of secession, not a civil war […]
So you say you don’t want a revolution?
So you say you don’t want a revolution? Over the past few months we have been forced to bear witness to a humiliating farce unfolding in Europe. Greece, which was first accepted into the European Monetary Union under false pretenses, then saddled with excessive levels of debt, then crippled through the imposition of austerity, finally did something: […]
