Showing posts with label international trade system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international trade system. Show all posts
7 May 2013

Inside the World Trade System: Financial

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Leaving Natal on the north-eastern coast of Brazil for Europe we had expected to enjoy tropical fruits at every meal, but we were to be d...
5 May 2013

Inside the World Trade System: Technical

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The lengthy hiatus in posts is the result of my spending two weeks aboard a cargo ship without an Internet connection. The lack of connect...
15 August 2011

Strange Fruit

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I think it was Arthur Scargill who said that if people start attacking you, you are obviously shaking the right tree. The interesting thing ...
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22 February 2011

The King's Speech

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You can tell that there is a major adaptation afoot when the Governer of the central bank of the country where capitalist finance is based s...
11 November 2010

Diverting the Currency Wars

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Robert Skidelsky joins the debate about the need for a neutral global trading currency, but this time in the Financial Times which is also ...
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16 November 2008

G20: Some Achievement!

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I am impressed by the results of the so-called global negotiation that took place in Washington in just one day. It is a remarkable achievem...
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12 July 2008

Time to Get Growing

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There is a lot of noise these days about the importance of food security - even the government have jumped on this bandwaggon, following aft...
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12 September 2007

Beware the Blandishments of the Tescopolist

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Capitalism is threatened by climate change and it is responding. I offer as evidence Tesco's endowment at Manchester University of a Sus...
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4 June 2007

What is trade really for?

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If we think our way back to the earliest historical example of trade we can recall, the Vikings or the Hanseatic League, perhaps, the first ...
26 May 2007

Trading Futures

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In spite of the breaking out of civil war in Lebanon and the deaths of many innocent people, the fire aboard the Cutty Sark topped the news ...
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18 May 2007

Banking on each other

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No wonder that Venezuelan president Chavez is public enemy no. 1 for the Bush administration. Not only is he smart enough to have figured ou...