The Beijing sting
John Perkins recounts times spent hoodwinking developing economies out of their resources for the US and warns how his Chinese counterparts are raising the bar. I was an economic hit …
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Another small step
Bronwyn Howell explains why humans might remain at the top of the chain of command. Crypto-currencies, and the blockchain technology that underpins them, are widely-cited as game-changers in technology, fiercely …
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Gas guzzlers swerve the issue
Noel Cass asks: how do the rich justify their high-carbon lifestyles? Every month, another headline points out that the rich are responsible for the majority of climate-damaging carbon emissions. In …
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Time to spend
Jason van Tol tells a story of the true price of policy. Tragedy struck recently in my friend’s kindergarten class. Savanah, the single, working grandmother of Davey, one of the …
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The debt ceiling melodrama
US federal debt has its limits. Richard Vague tells the tale. One of the great melodramas of American politics erupts in Washington when the federal debt approaches its statutory limit and …
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Dividends in the Co-op
Margaret Lund tells how cooperation works in practice. In theory, there should be no such thing as a multi-stakeholder cooperative (MSC); in practice, it is a popular model of cooperative …
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Just because you know how to make money, that doesn’t mean you know how to make money.
Steve Keen puts his money on the Fiat against the Tesla with the backing of Ford. Elon Musk has been making a lot of comments on government debt recently, and …
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Nobbled in a noble cause
How we became prize fighters. Henry Leveson-Gower recounts. I was going through my mail (the paper stuff) some months ago when I was a little shocked to open a letter …
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Deception and perception
When money is the messenger, why do the poor believe it? Paul Frijters questions the truth. According to Max Lawson of Oxfam, who recently gave a fascinating interview in The …
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Some are more equal than others
There’s more to extreme wealth than first appears. Mark Thomas points it out. We are all used to inequality. There is inequality of height, weight, shoe size and just about …
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