In a fake news classic, Rob Corddry and Jon Stewart of the Daily Show once pondered how to report "the facts" when "the facts themselves were biased."  Michael Mandel seems to think the facts are bia…

One of the standard arguments why the GCC currencies' depreciation – they, after all, generally peg to the dollar – won’t lead to high rates of inflation is that the GCC countries are open to both im…

The alliance between the Chinese state – lest we forget, still a (nominally) communist state -- and the high priests of global financial capitalism is close to complete.    Goldman, Royal Bank o…

Alan Ruskin argues that the moves in the foreign exchange market today -- with the dollar and yen rising sharply against nearly everything -- reflect an unwinding of bets made on the assumption that…

With Rob Knake, I have a new piece up on Yale Global Online about the race between innovation and security. We use the hacking of Google not to focus on human rights or cyberwar, but rather to show …