SHONA MURRAY The Irish government’s decision to appeal a European Commission ruling that US tech firm Apple must pay back taxes is likely to have serious ramifications for its “moral authority” in some corners of […]
Ariel Noyola Rodríguez During the first Annual Summit organized by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing, China has shown her intention to take over the global leadership in infrastructure investment. By the end […]
PEPE ESCOBAR What has just taken place in Hangzhou, China, is of immense geoeconomic importance. Beijing from the start treated the G20 very seriously; this was designed as China’s party, not the declining West’s. And […]
Neil Clark The most revealing thing about the European Commission’s ruling that Apple should pay Ireland up to €13 billion in back taxes has been the indignant reaction from the US. Charles Schumer, described by […]
In Europe, politicians in the bloc’s biggest economic powers, France and Germany, find themselves under fire for supporting negotiations with the U.S. Zerohedge.com Just two days after Germany’s outspoken vice chancellor (who has over the […]
Matt Agorist After years of giveaways to megabanks, marketed to the taxpayers as ‘quantitative easing,’ the crutches shoved under the banker-controlled global stock trade are about to snap. Bankers now say they are preparing for […]
Pending trade agreements, including the TPP, would dramatically expand this system—and in turn, its corporate-friendly consequences Deidre Fulton New reporting this week further exposes how Investor State Dispute Settlement, or ISDS—a legal system enshrined in […]
By Jack Rasmus This week marks the first anniversary of the 2015 Greek debt crisis, the third in that country’s recent history since 2010. Last Aug. 20-21, 2015, the ‘Troika’—i.e., the pan-European institutions of the […]
Nobel laureate says Obama’s push to get lawmakers to pass deal during lame-duck session of Congress is “absolutely wrong” By Andrea Germanos Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has reiterated his opposition to the Trans Pacific […]
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that Europe’s financial crisis has been the direct result of adopting the euro in his latest book, The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe. He […]
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