But it now appears that globalization reaches its limits. These limits exist for two reasons. Firstly, there is the environmental limit. Globalization leads to very strong forms of specialization. There is of … Continue reading How Far Should We Push Globalisation?

Some of the financial industry’s biggest donors have been hedge funds, with James Simons’ Renaissance Technologies and Paul Singer’s Elliot Management leading the way at $37.5 million and $20.2 million respectively. Of … Continue reading Wall Street Spends $2.3 Million a Day to Stall Financial Reforms

China had been one of the world’s worst offenders on the subject of climate change — then Trump came along Well, there you have it. There’s no lower we can go on … Continue reading When China calls out Donald Trump on climate change, you know it’s bad – Salon.com

Still, a Clinton victory would be a reassuring signal to Europe. Her close adviser Jake Sullivan was a key figure in the secret negotiations in Oman that paved the way for the … Continue reading Frustrated Europe hopes Clinton win can spur elusive Iran deals 

Man goes to drug store dressed as an enormous drug store receipt This is pretty funny for those of us who have ever walked out of s drugstore having bought something. Source: … Continue reading Man goes to drug store dressed as an enormous drug store receipt

More election fatigue! Source: New State Department Documents Reveal More Clinton-Abedin Email Exchanges of Classified Information on Unsecure Server – Judicial Watch Continue reading New State Department Documents Reveal More Clinton-Abedin Email Exchanges of Classified Information on Unsecure Server – Judicial Watch

The way we pick our president is the worst voting system. Period. Source: Don’t Blame Voters for the Rise of Trump. Blame the Stupid Way We Vote. Continue reading The Stupid Way We Vote.

A magnitude 6.6 temblor struck central and southern Italy on Sunday. Another devastating earthquake in Italy. Completely wipes out a city that has been there for hundreds of years. I wonder if … Continue reading Drone footage shows devastating aftermath of Italy earthquake

Welcome to the age of austerity Great article explaining how austerity is not about making countries healthier, it’s about enriching banks. That public, government debt is actually an asset, but we’ve all … Continue reading How the politics of debt explains everything

Turkey has formally arrested more than 37,000 people and has already sacked or suspended 100,000 civil servants, judges, prosecutors, police and others in an unprecedented crackdown the government says is necessary to … Continue reading Turkey sacks 10,000 more civil servants, shuts more media in post-coup crackdown 

What happened at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this year was no whodunit. Yet the government’s case was more challenging than it seemed. Defense attorneys in the case say that prosecutors … Continue reading How the government lost its case against the Oregon occupiers

It is one thing for a leader such as Vladimir Putin to send all of Washington and the media clerks serving it into a dither—as the Russian president has on numerous occasions. … Continue reading The Filipino President Just Set Off a Diplomatic Earthquake