The Bre-X Minerals scam was practically made for the big screen. In 1997 many surely felt like they were living something out of a movie when 200 million ounces of "gold" evaporated from the Busang project in Indonesia, along with billions of investors' dollars and one Filipino geologist.Ripe with drama, the famous fraud is littered with greed, deception, high stakes, boardroom battles, lawsuits,...Read More
We need an alternative to Trump’s nationalism. It isn’t the status quo. The answer to neoliberalism's Waterloo cannot be the retreat to a barricaded nation-state and the pitting of 'our' people against 'others' fenced off by tall walls.The Guardian has suggested that progressive internationalism should be the antidote to populism around the world. It says that one cannot fight Trump's...Read More
We need an alternative to Trump’s nationalism. It isn’t the status quo. The answer to neoliberalism's Waterloo cannot be the retreat to a barricaded nation-state and the pitting of 'our' people against 'others' fenced off by tall walls.The Guardian has suggested that progressive internationalism should be the antidote to populism around the world. It says that one cannot fight Trump's...Read More
The Ways That Pop Economics Hurt America ... Someone needed to write a book about how economic theory has been abused in American politics. And someone finally did. James Kwak's "Economism" is a very important and timely book, and anyone who is interested in public affairs should pick up a copy and read it. Kwak, a law professor at the University of Connecticut, spins a tale of how simple supp...Read More
The Ways That Pop Economics Hurt America ... Someone needed to write a book about how economic theory has been abused in American politics. And someone finally did. James Kwak's "Economism" is a very important and timely book, and anyone who is interested in public affairs should pick up a copy and read it. Kwak, a law professor at the University of Connecticut, spins a tale of how simple supp...Read More
Xi portrays China as global leader as Trump era looms ... China will build a “new model” of relations with the United States, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday in a speech that portrayed China as the leader of a globalized world where only international cooperation could solve the big problems. -ReutersWith Trump focusing on domestic problems, China is stepping up to become an int...Read More
Xi portrays China as global leader as Trump era looms ... China will build a “new model” of relations with the United States, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday in a speech that portrayed China as the leader of a globalized world where only international cooperation could solve the big problems. -ReutersWith Trump focusing on domestic problems, China is stepping up to become an int...Read More
Donald Trump is committed to globalisation. Davos told Elite in Europe and US have misunderstood trade stance says Anthony Scaramucci … A senior member of Donald Trump's team insisted that the president-elect was committed to globalisation, open trade and Nato, despite recent comments that unsettled America's allies. -FTDonald Trump either misunderstand what globalism is, or he’s not...Read More
Donald Trump is committed to globalisation. Davos told Elite in Europe and US have misunderstood trade stance says Anthony Scaramucci … A senior member of Donald Trump's team insisted that the president-elect was committed to globalisation, open trade and Nato, despite recent comments that unsettled America's allies. -FTDonald Trump either misunderstand what globalism is, or he’s not...Read More
British Politician Warns Trump 'CIA Is Plotting Assassination' - British politician George Galloway has warned Donald Trump the American deep state is engaged in a "soft coup d'etat" and the CIA is planning to assassinate him. "There is a clear and present danger on his life.” -Your News WireGeorge Galloway is a somewhat popular but wildly leftist, English politician who says thing that othe...Read More
British Politician Warns Trump 'CIA Is Plotting Assassination' - British politician George Galloway has warned Donald Trump the American deep state is engaged in a "soft coup d'etat" and the CIA is planning to assassinate him. "There is a clear and present danger on his life.” -Your News WireGeorge Galloway is a somewhat popular but wildly leftist, English politician who says thing that othe...Read More
Sometimes the People Need to Call the Experts … The government about to take over in Washington has more billionaires than the Boston of Buckley's time, but it seems willing to test the theory that academics can be dispensed with for the most part. – BloombergThis article says that people ought to run the country except when “experts” do a better job, and that’s a lot...Read More
Sometimes the People Need to Call the Experts … The government about to take over in Washington has more billionaires than the Boston of Buckley's time, but it seems willing to test the theory that academics can be dispensed with for the most part. – BloombergThis article says that people ought to run the country except when “experts” do a better job, and that’s a lot...Read More
Happer is not wrong that carbon dioxide appears to bolster plant growth - the greening up of the Arctic has, indeed, been observed. But that comes with many other consequences, including melting of glaciers and thawing of permafrost, which can emit still more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. -Washington PostPhysicist William Happer believes there is global warming but unlike most, he believes it...Read More
Happer is not wrong that carbon dioxide appears to bolster plant growth - the greening up of the Arctic has, indeed, been observed. But that comes with many other consequences, including melting of glaciers and thawing of permafrost, which can emit still more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. -Washington PostPhysicist William Happer believes there is global warming but unlike most, he believes it...Read More
Trump Needs Vaccine Experts, Not Conspiracy Theorists ... Trump could have turned to any number of reputable experts to learn about vaccine safety. Instead, he went straight for the fringe. -Daily BeastDonald Trump supposedly picked Robert Kennedy Jr. to head a commission on vaccines and autism, causing a good deal of anxiety among mainstream media.Trump has since denied that any decision has been...Read More
Trump Needs Vaccine Experts, Not Conspiracy Theorists ... Trump could have turned to any number of reputable experts to learn about vaccine safety. Instead, he went straight for the fringe. -Daily BeastDonald Trump supposedly picked Robert Kennedy Jr. to head a commission on vaccines and autism, causing a good deal of anxiety among mainstream media.Trump has since denied that any decision has been...Read More
Canada's Goldcorp (TSX:G)(NYSE:GG), the world's third largest gold producer by market value, is selling mines in Mexico and Guatemala to two different buyers as part of its ongoing efforts to focus on highly profitable, core assets.The Vancouver-based company said it will receive an estimated $438 million worth of cash, stock and other assets by selling its Los Filos gold-and-silver mine in Mexic...Read More
Tribal Warfare in Economics Is a Thing of the Past ... I still remember going to a graduate student barbecue my first month at the University of Michigan. I told a woman from another department that I was studying economics, and she asked me: "What school?" Blinking, I replied "This one. The University of Michigan." That wasn't what she was asking, of course. She wanted to know which tribe of ec...Read More
Tribal Warfare in Economics Is a Thing of the Past ... I still remember going to a graduate student barbecue my first month at the University of Michigan. I told a woman from another department that I was studying economics, and she asked me: "What school?" Blinking, I replied "This one. The University of Michigan." That wasn't what she was asking, of course. She wanted to know which tribe of ec...Read More