Japan Archives - Page 2 of 2

Household Debt: A Tale of Three Countries

By Dr Steven Hail

Economist Dr Steven Hail on how Japan has managed to avoid another financial crisis without creating a major private debt problem, while America and Australia… have not.

Latest Articles

Rising Tides

You only have to experience the futility of a climate breakdown debate to understand how disconnected human beings have become from nature. When it comes to the natural world our human superiority complex prevents us really connecting with the very thing that sustains us. Like the Amazon, the irony burns. So we need a rethink.

What’s So Great About “Free Trade”?

Those leading the anti-EU, pro-Brexit charge want Britain to sign “free trade” deals with the US and growing economies. What they don’t tell you is that the very EU policies they claim to oppose are cut-and-paste into “free trade” deals outside the EU. Tim Coles explains that “free trade”, EU or non-EU, is bad for working people: and we have NAFTA as a historical model to prove it.

Sunset On The West?

The rise of China and other emerging economies isn't a new phenomenon. So the tectonic plates of trade shift and global economic power twists and turns. Dr. Lee Jones and Mitch Feierstein met up with Renegade Inc. to consider what the transition from a unipolar western hegemony to an interconnected multipolar world really looks like.

@Renegade_Inc

“We have to eat babies.... even if we bomb Russia we still have too many people” twitter.com/realsaav…

About 45 minutes ago

‘But Brexit’ etc. twitter.com/richardw…

About 13 hours ago

This is a visual depiction of QE. The building is the Treasury but it could be any central bank. cc @PlanetPonzi twitter.com/davidsam…

Yesterday

.@BarackObama - Morning Barack! One word for you: Libya.

Yesterday

Awkward... twitter.com/davidsam…

Yesterday