Notes on the Global Condition

Notes on the Global Condition: Dollar Questions

February 14, 2017

Asian sell off? Dollar crash? Alternatives to the dollar? Or a future of more or less dysfunctional entanglement?

Notes on the global condition – Valentine’s edition: It’s all about chocolate

February 14, 2017

Containers of Hershey’s chocolate at Oakland dock, value-chains, multinationals, mormon tasters and peasant poverty.

Notes on the Global Condition: Political Economies of Money

February 13, 2017

If the state underpins the global dollar, how should we characterize its political economy? Bond vigilantes or managed money?

Notes on the Global Condition: The Global Dollar & The Dollar World

February 11, 2017

As American hegemony enters crisis, the significance of the dollar in the global economy is greater than ever before. Remarkable new data and pretty maps too!

Notes on the Global Condition: All The Children Are Gone

February 7, 2017

Shocking reports from North Nigerian war zone where millions are displaced and famine and disease appear to have killed virtually an entire generation of infants and young children.

Notes on the Global Condition: Trump’s “Wall” and the global cement industry that will build it

January 27, 2017

Trump’s border wall will be a massive engineering project. For all its perverse nationalism it cannot escape the logic of global capitalism. It will be paid for by American consumers and the main supplier of the raw materials will be Cemex, a globalized Mexican cement corporation.

Notes on the Global Condition: Whose Money is Exiting China?

January 26, 2017

Whose money is exiting China? Domestic not foreign it turns out. Nice illustration of key point in critique of Streeck.

Notes on the Global Condition/After the Crisis: The Global Dollar Shortage and the Trade Slowdown

January 19, 2017

How the Global Dollar Shortage may be crushing global trade. How money and the real economy connect under conditions of financialization. Brilliance from Kaminska/FT and Shin/BIS.

Notes on the Global Condition (2017/5)

January 13, 2017

All Eyes on Turkey With its domestic politics in turmoil and the civil war in Syria on its doorstep, Turkey’s economy is in trouble too.

Notes on the Global Condition (2017/5) China and the transformation of global trade

January 12, 2017

Extraordinary FT report on how China became a maritime superpower. https://ig.ft.com/sites/china-ports/

Notes on the Global Condition (2017/4)