Category Archives: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
Ex-Guerrilla, Pot-Legalizing, Champion of the Poor: Uruguay’s Mujica Steps Down
Ex-Guerrilla, Pot-Legalizing, Champion of the Poor: Uruguay’s Mujica Steps Down Post Categories: Photo News RT | Monday, March 2, 2015, 6:10 Beijing Jose Mujica. (Reuters/Andres Stapff) Uruguay’s president, Jose “Pepe” Mujica, a former guerrilla who lives on a farm and … Continue reading
Global Debt: The Tip and the Bulk of the Iceberg
Global Debt: The Tip and the Bulk of the Iceberg Post Categories: Economy Valentin KATASONOV | Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 9:06 Beijing Despite the chilling nature of the global debt and individual country debt figures cited in the report published … Continue reading
A Berlin-Moscow-Beijing Commercial Axis
A Berlin-Moscow-Beijing Commercial Axis Post Categories: Opinion > Pepe Escobar Pepe Escobar | Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 1:52 Beijing What Are They Really Up To? The BRICS Plus Germany Winston Churchill once said, “I feel lonely without a war.” He … Continue reading
Downton Abbey economics
Downton Abbey economics March 3, 2015David F. Ruccio from David Ruccio If you watched the Downton Abbey Season 5 finale, you will have seen the elaborately staged grouse shoot: The bird shooting party is an extraordinary example of what life … Continue reading
Evidence of intelligent life in the economics profession [STTPML:??]
Evidence of intelligent life in the economics profession March 3, 2015deanbaker1 from Dean Baker Last month, former Clinton Treasury Secretary and top Obama adviser Larry Summers ripped into those arguing that more education is the answer to the country’s inequality … Continue reading
Old Senile Men and Westphalian Fascism: McCain, Kissinger, Scowcroft, Brzezinski,
Old Senile Men and Westphalian Fascism: McCain, Kissinger, Scowcroft, Brzezinski, Post Categories: Canada Wayne MADSEN | Monday, March 2, 2015, 6:31 Beijing Although it is difficult to determine what the three old men of Western power politics mean in their … Continue reading
Economists pretending to know
Economists pretending to know March 2, 2015Editor from Lars Syll We are storytellers, operating much of the time in worlds of make believe. We do not find that the realm of imagination and ideas is an alternative to, or retreat from, … Continue reading