Global Economy

“Covid Tolerance Zero” has contributed to destabilizing Shanghai’s financial sector as well as China's buoyant export economy. It has created social havoc for millions of people. The Chinese Government has now acknowledged that is was based on fake science.
The globalist Davos World Economic Forum is proclaiming the necessity of reaching a worldwide goal of “net zero carbon” by 2050. Yet transformations underway from Germany to the USA, are setting the stage for creation of what is called the New Word Order. In reality it is a blueprint for a global technocratic totalitarian corporativism, that promises huge unemployment, deindustrialization and economic collapse.
America has the greatest inequalities, highest mortality rate, most regressive taxes, and largest public subsidies for bankers and billionaires of any developed capitalist country. One of the most likely sources of billionaire wealth is through tax evasion in all of its guises and forms.
For more than 12 years the WEF has pushed a corporate model in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The “big target” has been India, where resistance to corporate takeover of agriculture has been fierce ever since the failed 1960’s Green Revolution of the Rockefeller Foundation.
ASEAN and the New Cold War Battle for Eurasia’s Economic Future By Andrew Korybko, December 14, 2015
The COP21 Climate Summit: The Ambitions and Flaws of the Paris Agreement. Outcome of Deception and Bullying By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 13, 2015
The Neoconservatives’ Hegemonic Goal Of Making Sovereign Countries Extinct Is Bringing Instead The Extinction Of Planet Earth By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 13, 2015
Climate Summit COP21: The Curtain Falls on a Masquerade. Peasants of the World Struggle for Food Sovereignty By Via Campesina, December 13, 2015
Greece: National Economic Collapse and the Neoliberal Backlash, Syriza Holds On, The Left Is Weakened By Asad Ismi, December 13, 2015
Interest Free Banking: Russia Debates Unorthodox Orthodox Financial Alternative By F. William Engdahl, December 12, 2015
Reinventing Banking: From Russia to Iceland to Ecuador By Ellen Brown, December 12, 2015
Impoverishment of the Middle Class in America: Middle-income Households No Longer The Majority By Andre Damon, December 11, 2015
The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA): This is No Ordinary Trade Deal. A Fundamental Aspect of Washington’s “Pivot-to-Asia” Policy By International Movement for a Just World, December 10, 2015
“Crunch Time”? Credit Markets, International Trade, Financial Volatility and the Gold Market By Bill Holter, December 10, 2015
China-Africa Cooperation: Economic and Geopolitical Implications By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 09, 2015
Latin America: The Aborted Neo-Liberal Offensive By Prof. James Petras, December 09, 2015
The IMF “Forgives” Ukraine’s Debt to Russia By Prof Michael Hudson, December 09, 2015
The WTO has Impoverished Developing Countries By Kavaljit Singh, December 09, 2015
Virtual Currencies: The Elusive Creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 09, 2015
The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is Part of Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” By International Movement for a Just World, December 08, 2015
China’s Yuan will be the Third Most Powerful Currency in the IMF Basket By Ariel Noyola Rodríguez, December 08, 2015
Financial Markets Crashed, Including the Dollar. What Happened? By Bill Holter, December 07, 2015
The IMF SDR Rights and the Global Currency Markets: Impacts of the Elevation of the Chinese Yuan (Renminbi) By Nick Beams, December 06, 2015
The world's focus will be on Venezuela's election Sunday. | Photo: AFP
Venezuela’s Elections: Courage in the Face of Economic and Psychological Warfare By Eric Draitser, December 06, 2015
China is Playing the Gold Game very Carefully: Covert Purchases of Gold By Koos Jansen and Lars Schall, December 05, 2015
Illustration: Peter C. Espina/GT
China Develops Unique Cooperation Model With Africa By Song Guoyou, December 05, 2015
China Sucked Deeper Into World Financial Vortex, as BRICS Sink Fast By Prof. Patrick Bond, December 04, 2015
The Fight against Neoliberalism and Britain’s Austerity Measures By Lesley Docksey, December 04, 2015
Africa’s Debt Burden: The Dual Problems of National and Individual Debt By Helen Gallant, December 03, 2015
Few Political Alternatives for Nepal: India’s Economic Blockade By Barbara Nimri Aziz, December 02, 2015
“Free Market” Capitalism: An Ideology is a Lie Which Will not Die By John Kozy, December 02, 2015
“Capitalism at Work”: Good-Bye To Western Living Standards By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 02, 2015
Argentina: A Quiet Neoliberal Coup d’Etat in Latin America’s Southern Cone By Peter Koenig, December 01, 2015
The Corporate Scramble for Europe: Big Oil and the Transatlantic Trade Deal (TTIP) By Colin Todhunter, December 01, 2015
The IMF Confirms China’s Yuan Inclusion In SDR Basket By Zero Hedge, December 01, 2015
The Global Financial System: Can You Handle the Ugly Truth? Fraud in the Gold Market By Bill Holter, November 29, 2015
Capitalism at Work. Widespread Hardship: “What’s More Important? The Dignity of Women or another Billion Dollars for the Banksters”? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 29, 2015
“The Insourcing of Prison Labor”: Seven US Corporate Household Names Use Prison Labor to Produce their Goods By Kelley Davidson, November 28, 2015
Washington’s “Destabilization Agenda”: A Hybrid War to Break the Balkans? By Andrew Korybko, November 28, 2015
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP): America’s “Economic War” Against Asia And Latin America By Ulises Noyola Rodríguez, November 28, 2015
Class, War And David Cameron. “Keep our Country Safe, …Military Action against ISIS” By Colin Todhunter, November 27, 2015
British Austerity: Cutting One’s Own Backyard By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 27, 2015
Corporate Parasites And Economic Plunder: We Need A Genuine Green Revolution By Colin Todhunter, November 25, 2015
Why We’re Sliding Towards World War By Washington's Blog, November 25, 2015
Europe and the Global Systemic Economic Crisis By Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin (GEAB), November 24, 2015
The Realism of Audacity: Was There Another Road for Greece? Rethinking Revolutionary Strategy Today By Panagiotis Sotiris, November 23, 2015
War on Cash: How and Why the Financial Elites Want to End Physical Cash By Phoenix Capital Research, November 22, 2015
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest Rates, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in By Ellen Brown, November 20, 2015
Who Needs Gates and Monsanto? Confronting Hunger, Poverty and Climate Change: “Tremendous Success” of Agroecology in Africa By Colin Todhunter, November 20, 2015
Abe’s Plan For Japan: A Fourth Arrow? By Naoko Kumada, November 19, 2015
US Approves $1.29 Billion Deal to Re-Arm Saudi Arabia Despite Country’s Mass Atrocities By Sarah Lazare, November 18, 2015
Top Swedish, US and Canadian Pension Funds Linked to Brazilian Land Grabs, Displacement of People By Grain, November 16, 2015
Debt Serfdom in America: Spiralling Household Debts, Mortgages, Credit Cards, Student Loans By Liaquat Ali Khan, November 13, 2015
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Federal Reserve Admits It Has No Idea What It’s Doing By Washington's Blog, November 13, 2015
New Socialist Government Keeps Portuguese People Under The “Neoliberal Economic Whip” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 13, 2015
The Devastating Impacts of the TPP Trade Deal on Vietnam By Chuck Searcy, November 13, 2015
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Britain’s “Love Hate Relationship” with the EU: David Cameron’s Gimmick, “Negotiating Cycles” with Brussels By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 12, 2015
Shocking, Little-Known Facts About Debt. Private Debt Exploding By Washington's Blog, November 12, 2015
Neo-Colonialism in Africa: The Struggle to Reverse Neoliberalism and U.S. Militarization By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 10, 2015
Neoliberal Water under the Bridge: How Politics and Business Unite in the U.S., Honduras and Israel By Charity Crouse, November 10, 2015
The Re-emerging African Debt Crisis. Renewed IMF “Economic Medicine” By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 10, 2015
Full Text of TPP Released: Monsanto’s Dream Trade Deal. The Biotech Industry “Can Legally Patent Your Genes” By Christina Sarich, November 09, 2015
Lessons from the Greek Debacle: A Left Euro-Skepticism or a Left Popular Front against the EU? By Stavros Mavroudeas, November 09, 2015
The Re-enserfment of Western Peoples. The Corporate Power Grab Which Eliminates Political Sovereignty By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 09, 2015
The Flood of Refugees into Europe: “The New Slave Trade” By Peter Koenig, November 08, 2015
TPP, WTO, NAFTA: The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History By Chris Hedges, November 08, 2015
TPP Ignores “Global Warming” and Allows “Murder” of Labor Union Organizers By Eric Zuesse, November 07, 2015
Another Phony US Payroll Jobs Number Report. Fake Unemployment Statistics By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 07, 2015
Looming Economic Collapse Scenarios facing the United States: Lessons from the Soviet Collapse Interview with Dimitry Orlov. Global Research News Hour Episode 90. By Dmitry Orlov and Michael Welch, November 06, 2015
Secret TPP Text Unveiled: It’s Worse Than We Thought By Public Citizen, November 06, 2015
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): ‘Worse Than We Thought’. A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare By Deirdre Fulton, November 06, 2015
Demonstrators protest the TPP trade deal. | Photo: Reuters
TPP Fears Confirmed: “Environmental Risks, Runaway Corporate Power, Weakened Democracy” By Telesur, November 06, 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) A Trade Deal of Denial: Omissions and Sins By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 06, 2015
The Full Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) By Global Research News, November 05, 2015
China’s Renminbi as a World Currency, Endorsed by the City of London By Ariel Noyola Rodríguez, November 05, 2015
Global Conflict and the Geopolitics of US-China Relations By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 01, 2015
Big Pharma and the Money-Making Business of Medicine By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, November 01, 2015
National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Calls on US Government to Normalize Relations with Cuba, End Persecution of Anti-Blockade Activists By National Lawyers Guild International, November 01, 2015
The Normalization of Relations with Cuba: Obama, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is on Cuba By Art Heitzer and Prof. Marjorie Cohn, November 01, 2015
Unemployment, Collapsing Infrastructure, An Incompetent Social-political-economic System: America is “On the Road to the Third World” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, October 30, 2015
IMF Pegs Canada’s Fossil Fuel Subsidies at $34 Billion By Mitchell Anderson, October 30, 2015
The Defeat of the FTAA. The Emergence of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) By Arnold August, October 30, 2015
Automakers and Their Dark, Deadly Conspiracies By Yves Engler, October 29, 2015
How the New World Order “Globalists” Are Dividing Americans By Joachim Hagopian, October 28, 2015