Subjects Archives: Financialization

The UK government has firmly rejected this Monday Jamaica’s demand for financial reparations for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, as a Jamaican delegation formally requested £10 billion in compensation from King Charles III.

Western media mostly ignore the issue. It only comes up when it is needed to interfere in favor of this or that faction within Ukraine.

The Coming world depression requires a New International Economic Order led by Russia, China and Iran.

As the central bankers of the world met at Jackson Hole, Wyoming for their annual get together to discuss issues affecting the world financial sector and monetary policy, U.S. statistics for corporate profits for the second quarter of 2026 were released.

No contract? No Starbucks coffee at the union hall.

The Tsinghua economist welcomes China’s new offshore trust tax rules and reflects on the stark disparity between taxes on capital and labour.

Contemporary global political discourses are often noted for their intense polarization, in which elections are increasingly reduced from choices about governance and ideology to something more banal and ritualistic.

In July 2025, Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods in a failed attempt to stop the prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was later sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup.

Over the last decade, digital sovereignty has emerged not only as a technical debate about network infrastructure but as the central pillar of political and economic autonomy in the 21st century.

Left unmentioned in the editorials is that Bezos’ empire—via his space company Blue Origin and Amazon’s cloud computing arm, AWS—holds billions of dollars worth of Pentagon contracts.

Guinea-Bissau’s geography had always made it profitable for smuggling–particularly in the Bijagós archipelago, with its more than eighty islands and complex coastal waterways.

Kevin Crane takes on some common questions about Artificial Intelligence.

One trillion USD, or 1,000,000,000,000, is difficult to conceptualize, as the median U.S. household bank account holds a median of $8,000, or 0.0000008% of a trillion.

When SpaceX shares began trading on the Nasdaq on June 12, the trap was already set.

I do not know if the numbers on the Forbes char are correct but it is quite obvious that Trump and his family are using their positions to enrich themselves.

The world needs an alternative structure of accumulation, beyond neoliberalism, if U.S. hegemony is to be decisively challenged.

How to Make Revolution Liveable.

CounterSpin interview with Sarah Anderson on poverty wages.

Clara McCormack assesses the nature of the fuel protests that brought the country to a standstill for a week, arguing that we need to broaden the protests into a wider fight on the cost-of-living crisis.

As Ruchir Sharma put it back last October, “America is now one big bet on AI“.