Politics / Finance

Funds from hidden sources are warping democracy with increasing and devastating effect. Peter Geoghegan follows the money.

Ten years ago the world focused on the US foreclosure crisis as thousands lost their homes in dodgy mortgage deals. Today, the crisis is still a reality for many. Jack Crosbie reports.

If the global financial crisis symbolized the decline of the West, it also signalled that the future belongs to China – a superpower that ‘understands’ the developing world better than the US, IMF or World Bank, according to Martin Jacques.

Clueless central banks? A trade war? Southern debt? Leading economists on where the next crisis might come from...

Yohann Koshy looks at the impending catastrophe linking the stock market to climate change.

It’s 10 years since the global financial system almost sent the world into a great depression. Yohann Koshy takes stock of what went wrong and where we are now.

The European Central Bank (ECB) is pumping billions into the economy, resulting in a massive subsidy for oil and gas business and highway construction and car production companies.

There are ways to change the irresponsible system of tax avoidance, as Niko Block demonstrates.

New Internationalist dissects the language of high finance with low motives.

Alain Deneault explains how states legalize tax fraud.

Dan Hind explodes the self-righteous excuses of tax cheats.

Tax avoidance is a worldwide system involving many destinations and layers of financial manipulation. We chart a few of the strands to show who wins and who loses.

Tax avoidance has its most pernicious effects in the Global South. Stephanie Boyd reports from Peru.

Josh Eisen and Richard Swift tour the offshore world to find out why governments are drowning in debt.

The latest taxcast from the Tax Justice Network discusses the biggest offshore leak in history.

Luke Rees explores the degree to which proceeds from the lottery benefit society.

Dinyar Godrej explains why we need to find another way, fast.

We need debt management not reduction, says Dinyar Godrej.

Why should financial markets be accountable only to themselves? asks David Ransom.

Not if you look at the environmental costs, says Dinyar Godrej.