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Multinational companies are putting the brakes on global growth with a business model built on low wages according to a new poll from the (...) 
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We talk to James Rickards, author of the bestselling book Currency Wars about his new book, Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System.
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Do you ever get the feeling that something's going on in the global economy that we don't fully understand? That while Americans have been focused on fixing our wounded economy and worrying about our lost jobs and battered bank accounts, the world around us was changing in important but nearly imperceptible ways? You'd be right. It did. Enormous economic changes are taking place around the globe, many of them hidden in plain sight, others just plain hidden—kept from the press, the government, and, most of all, the everyday investor. Ever since 2008, when the global financial system melted down, the economic world as we know it has been flipped on its head. Countries and corporations that once dominated the planet have been decimated. Meanwhile, other powers have risen in their place and asserted themselves globally. And although the American economy appears to be recovering somewhat, and a handful of us are beginning to feel more confident about the future, the truth is that we won't be returning to "normal" any time soon.
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This report compiles all publicly available data on investor-state dispute settlement cases taken against EU member states since 1994. It highlights the irrefutable attack on recent EU accession count
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You are one of many readers who equate British-made consumer goods with a superior social and environmental-justice pedigree. Is this justified? To a degree, yes. Production closer to home should be more controlled and provide a bulwark against the fickle global marketplace and the many ethical abuses associated with globalisation. In the garment industry, for example, while it would be naive to suggest that the UK doesn’t have any sweatshops, onshoring production could have avoided the chaos we saw with the Rana Plaza disaster.
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The Trade in Services Agreement would make it easier for corporations to make profits and operate with impunity.
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Past trade agreements were good for the citizens of the nations involved. They cut prices. This one puts them up.
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The long read: The past three centuries of progress have been powered by coal, oil and gas. Burning much of what’s left will lead to environmental and economic catastrophe.
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Collaborative consumption is gaining political backing because of the way it encourages re-use and sustainability, writes Isabelle Szmigin.
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Next week, all the leaders of the top G20 nations meet in Brisbane Australia. The OECD has issued its latest forecast for global economic growth for that meeting to consider (http://www.oecd.org/eco/outlook/economicoutlook.htm). It’s the usual mantra from the all the international agencies, namely that global growth is still “stuck in low gear” i.e. well below the trend growth before the Great Recession; BUT don’t worry, next year things are going to pick up.
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WikiLeaks shows that big corporations and the billionaires behind them consider themselves powerful enough to just ignore governments.
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A ground-breaking milestone in the study of peace. For the first time, an Index has been created that ranks the nations of the world by their peacefulness and identifies some of the drivers of that peace.
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