Politics / Finance

Richard Murphy takes down the financial shenanigans and mythmaking that rich governments have used to hide their powers to spend for good.

Report on Pakistan's emergency financial bailout by Kabir Agarwal.

Could a Kenyan court case point the way towards a more just tax system? Amy Hall investigates.

Over the past 50 years, powerful states and corporations have imposed neoliberal policies around the world, delivering a potent cocktail of privatization, deregulation and cuts to public services. Millions have died from inadequate access to basic nutrition. There is another way, write Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel.

Words by Nick Dowson.

There was a World Tax Organization? Alex Cobham envisions a global body to clamp down on tax dodging.

When it comes to the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and ongoing support of fossil fuels, what would be the cost of financial reparations? Through exploring the history of a prominent player in the insurance marketplace, Sahar Shah and Harpreet Kaur Paul have an idea of where to start.

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.