Tag: Economy
What Has Publicly Blaming Cyber Attacks on Governm...
Posted by Emilio Iasiello | Jun 11, 2020 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US | 2 |
COVID-19: What You Need to Know about Fatality Rat...
Posted by Jeremy R. Hammond | Apr 25, 2020 | Europe, Featured, News & Analysis, Science, US | 11 |
SARS-CoV-2 Response: Imperial College Model and Lo...
Posted by Jeremy R. Hammond | Apr 17, 2020 | Europe, Featured, News & Analysis, Politics, Science, US | 5 |
SARS-CoV-2 Response: Where Do We Go from Here? (In...
Posted by Jeremy R. Hammond | Apr 17, 2020 | Featured, News & Analysis, Politics, Science, US | 1 |
Economic Growth Comes from Consumer Saving, Not Sp...
Posted by Jeremy R. Hammond | Jul 30, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US | 0 |
Lebanon’s Dubious Second Wave and the Need to End Lockdown
by George Ajjan | Jun 12, 2020 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics
Lebanon must end its lockdown or face economic, fiscal, and monetary disasters that pose an even greater threat to the country than COVID-19.
What Has Publicly Blaming Cyber Attacks on Governments Solved?
by Emilio Iasiello | Jun 11, 2020 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US
Blaming cyber attacks on governments has become routine, but has it resulted in accountability, punishment, or reduction in hostile cyber activities?
COVID-19: What You Need to Know about Fatality Rates
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Apr 25, 2020 | Europe, Featured, News & Analysis, Science, US
Inherently overestimated COVID-19 fatality rates have created mass fear and panic, manufacturing consent for extreme and harmful authoritarian policies.
SARS-CoV-2 Response: Imperial College Model and Lockdown Endgame
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Apr 17, 2020 | Europe, Featured, News & Analysis, Politics, Science, US
The influential Imperial College model governments have used to justify economic shutdown shows that lockdown only delays and worsens the problem long-term.
SARS-CoV-2 Response: Where Do We Go from Here? (Introduction)
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Apr 17, 2020 | Featured, News & Analysis, Politics, Science, US
In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, governments have implemented authoritarian lockdown measures that could easily be doing more harm than good.
Pioneering Effort to Contain Coronavirus Outbreak in Megacities
by Dan Steinbock | Jan 31, 2020 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics
Chinese government has used very strong measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. The ultimate economic impact will depend on the eventual diffusion and infectiousness of the new virus.
Pipeline or a Pipedream: Israel, Turkey Hydrocarbon Conflict is Brewing in the Mediterranean
by Ramzy Baroud | Jan 30, 2020 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics
What seemed like a lucrative deal, with immense geopolitical significance from an Israeli point of view, now appears to be another extension of the wider Middle Eastern conflict.
Remarks on the US-China “Trade Deal”
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 18, 2020 | Asia Pacific, Economy, US, Viewpoints
It’s not a trade deal but a means for Trump to back off his tariffs after realizing they harm US consumers instead of China.
Why Is Trump the Only Candidate with a Budget Proposal?
by David Swanson | Jan 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Every presidential candidate ought to produce a basic outline of a federal discretionary budget to give taxpayers some idea of how they intend to spend.
The Story of Trump’s Perilous Iran Escalation
by Dan Steinbock | Jan 14, 2020 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
The Trump assassination of major general Qasem Soleimani reflects regime change efforts that have taken a perilous turn.
Neoliberal Economics Destroyed the Economy and the Middle Class
by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 18, 2019 | Economy, US, Viewpoints
Perhaps economists will also come to the realization that they owe us accurate GDP accounting and not fanciful accounts that serve elite wealth in the financialized economy.
Why War Deaths Increase After Wars
by David Swanson | Nov 18, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
It would be more difficult for the US government to continually wage senseless wars if the estimated millions of dead received more attention.
Is Foreign Policy Journal a Biased Source for Information?
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Oct 30, 2019 | Featured, News & Analysis, Politics, US
The website Media Bias Fact Check accuses Foreign Policy Journal of biased reporting, but its accusation is what’s biased according to its own criteria.
US Tariff Wars Penalize Chinese Development and African Futures
by Dan Steinbock | Aug 30, 2019 | Africa, Asia Pacific, Economy, News & Analysis, US
In the coming months, some of the worst collateral damage of US tariff wars will occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The adverse impact is likely to be aggravated by US protectionism, which shuns economic integration in Africa.
What Globalism Did Was to Transfer the US Economy to China
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 23, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Economy, US, Viewpoints
The Fed can pump out more money to drive up financial asset prices, but it doesn’t drive up production because the jobs have been sent abroad.
Tariff Damage Spreading in US, China within Target in H2 2019
by Dan Steinbock | Aug 6, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Economy, News & Analysis, US
In the second half of 2019, US economic prospects will soften, despite the Fed rate cut, whereas Chinese growth target is likely to prevail. It’s time to prepare for diminished global economic prospects in 2019-20.
Economic Growth Comes from Consumer Saving, Not Spending
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Jul 30, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
The Federal Reserve’s inflationary monetary policy perversely incentivizes consumer spending when what the economy needs for real growth is consumer saving.
Are You Prepared for a Recession?
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Jul 22, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
Contrary to what you might read in the New York Times and other establishment media, the US economy is not doing fine. Another Fed-caused bust is coming.
Huge Gap between US Markets and International Trade
by Dan Steinbock | Jul 10, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
The current gap between US market highs and international economic realities is precipitating a global recession by 2020, given the current trends.
New US-Sino Trade Truce: Tougher Talks, More Economic Damage
by Dan Steinbock | Jul 5, 2019 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US
There is still a chance to salvage the US-China trade talks, but it would require a substantial reassessment of the US stance and objectives.