Politics / Finance
Articles about Finance, ordered by date. 
Home sweet home
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.
China: a post-neoliberal order?
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.
The next financial crisis
Clueless central banks? A trade war? Southern debt? Leading economists on where the next crisis might come from...
The carbon bubble
Yohann Koshy looks at the impending catastrophe linking the stock market to climate change.
When the world almost ended
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.
Dirty banking in Europe
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.
Ending the offshore bonanza
There are ways to change the irresponsible system of tax avoidance, as Niko Block demonstrates.
The dictionary of deceit
New Internationalist dissects the language of high finance with low motives.
Fox in charge of the hen house
Alain Deneault explains how states legalize tax fraud.
Whose money is it anyway?
Dan Hind explodes the self-righteous excuses of tax cheats.
The dissimulation game
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.
The damage done
Tax avoidance has its most pernicious effects in the Global South. Stephanie Boyd reports from Peru.
Tax cheating, easy living
Josh Eisen and Richard Swift tour the offshore world to find out why governments are drowning in debt.
The Panama Papers: a podcast special
The latest taxcast from the Tax Justice Network discusses the biggest offshore leak in history.
It’s a lottery
Luke Rees explores the degree to which proceeds from the lottery benefit society.
Myth 10: Growth is the only way
Dinyar Godrej explains why we need to find another way, fast.
Myth 9: Everyone has to pay their debts
We need debt management not reduction, says Dinyar Godrej.
Myth 7: Financial regulation will destroy a profitable banking sector
Why should financial markets be accountable only to themselves? asks David Ransom.
Myth 6: Fossil fuels are more economically viable than renewables
Not if you look at the environmental costs, says Dinyar Godrej.
Myth 5: The private sector is more efficient than the public sector
There is no evidence of greater efficiency, explains Dinyar Godrej.
Myth 4: Economic migrants are a drain on rich world economies
Migration follows a demand for labour - and benefits the receiving country, writes Dinyar Godrej.
Myth 3: Taxing the rich scares off investors and stalls economic performance
Taxation creates prosperity just as much as private enterprise, says David Ransom.
Myth 2: Deficit reduction is the only way out of a slump
Don't rely on those who caused the crash to resolve it, argues David Ransom.