GWPF | 18 April 2016 Polish Government Plans To Kill Wind Industry Poland’s thriving wind energy industry has warned that it faces bankruptcies, rapid divestment and an end to growth under a bill that threatens executives with prison. Proposals submitted to parliament by the ultraconservative rightwing administration will tighten regulations to the point of killing…
The Daily Sheeple | 23 Feb 2016 In case you haven’t heard, the Oregon state legislature has recently approved a new minimum wage, and Governor Kate Brown has already agreed to sign it. This minimum wage law will be very different from the wage laws of most states, in that it will vary on a…
F. William Engdahl | 24 Jan 2016 If there is any single price of any commodity that determines the growth or slowdown of our economy, it is the price of crude oil. Too many things don’t calculate today in regard to the dramatic fall in the world oil price. In June 2014 major oil traded…
GWPF | 12 Jan 2016 Are We Headed For An Electric Car Crisis? Plug-in electric vehicles failed to win over U.S. consumers amid the auto industry’s record sales in 2015, as low gasoline costs and daunting sticker prices damped demand. Americans bought just 102,600 such vehicles in 2015, a 17 percent decline from the previous…
NZ Herald | 2 Nov 2015 Retrenchment will cost 29 Auckland jobs as bank joins Goldman Sachs in servicing clients from Australia. Deutsche Bank’s Frankfurt headquarters. The global banking giant is shedding 35,000 staff and will shut its NZ operation. Photo / AP Moves by global financial players to close New Zealand-based operations are disappointing…
Washington Post | 28 Oct 2015 Fifteen of the biggest players in the $14 trillion market for credit insurance are also the referees. Firms such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs wrote the rules, are the dominant buyers and sellers and, ultimately, help decide winners and losers. Has a country such as Argentina…
Reuters | 26 Oct 2015 International Monetary Fund staff are set to give the all-clear for China‘s yuan to be included in the lender’s benchmark currency basket, laying the groundwork for a favourable decision by policymakers, people familiar with the discussions said on Sunday. The IMF’s executive board is scheduled to decide in November on…
The Guardian | 9 Oct 2015 Wikileaks has released what it claims is the full intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the controversial agreement between 12 countries that was signed off on Monday. TPP was negotiated in secret and details have yet to be published. But critics including Democrat presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton…
Radio NZ | 17 Aug 2015 A new report reveals Canada was the dominant foreign investor in New Zealand in the last two years. The study by financial services firm KPMG found Canada accounted for 22 percent of overseas investment in 2013-2014. It looked at major transactions, but did not include residential property. China –…
FT | 26 July 2015 High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. Pearson is in negotiations to sell its 50 per cent stake in the Economist Group, publisher of the Economist magazine, to other shareholders in the group including…