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During an interview one of us (Ricardo Soares de Oliveira) carried out in 2017, an African high net-worth individual said he was told by an executive whose business had long …
‘Come meet us in Dubai’: the new offshoring of grand corruption Read More
What determines who holds power in the boardrooms of Germany’s biggest companies? Is it performance? Or do factors such as social background play a bigger role? The sociologist Michael Hartmann, an emeritus professor …
Germany’s business elite and the illusion of meritocracy Read More
In May, Brazil’s Finance Minister Fernando Haddad flew to the U.S. to meet with executives from Amazon, Google, Nvidia, and Meta. His agenda: to pitch his country as the newest, most attractive …
Brazil wants to be a sustainable data center hub. Environmentalists are skeptical Read More
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday drew instant jeers when she defended the mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers and suggested that they could be replaced by Americans who …
Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers Read More
Food for thought on Gaza’s runaway inflation from Frances Coppola. Inflation, we are told, is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”: too much money chasing too few goods. Allowing the …
Bread line not the cashline Read More
Erald Kolasi warns of an inevitable US decline as China commands the trading top spot and the tie between the toppling of trade leaders and conflict. Trump’s recent trade war …
Something is going to go down Read More
John Komlos warns Donald Trump that shooting yourself in the foot is not the remedy for toe pain and prescribes an oracle’s application. It is common knowledge that the U.S.’s …
Double barrelled deficits and two-tiered opportunities Read More
Ecuador leapt into the global economy seeking economic development but found only dependency. María Gabriela Palacio Ludeña writes. At Guayaquil airport, Ecuadorians disembark from deportation flights, some wearing ankle monitors …
The price of compliance Read More
Lebohang Liepollo Pheko tells how alternatives to neoliberal consumption are being built in the Global South even as Trumps’ America charges around. As Trump-era tariffs spiral into renewed trade chaos, …
Alternative route Read More
Richard Vague advises Donald Trump to stop charging around and do some research. The US has had a particularly woeful trade deficit since the 1980s, and this article will consider …
Tech trumps tariffs Read More