China’s investment and services “great wall”

While China’s OFDI is characterised by being politically unconditional, therefore highly welcomed, the predominance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) investing in Africa and other developing countries could eventually become ...

Pre-paid power

The crisis of trust in politicians and elected democracy deepens: direct preference-based decision-making is developed as a commercial Facebook type service, backed by private equity transnational corporations (TNCs). The first...

Checkout finance

Conventional banks continue to fail, including those now owned by governments: suddenly in 2015 most financial services are provided by large supermarkets (Tesco, Carrefours, Aldi, etc). This also finalizes the relocation of co...

MacPublicService, Inc.

Internationalisation of public-and-private network goes extremely well. But this means everything is American-ised. 20% of EU public services (including jail) are provided by US companies.

Green genie of restless capitalism

Collapse of major national bank is a catalyst for new forms of cooperative ownership of basic services, in a peripheral country e.g. Ireland, Portugal, Latvia. A sudden focus on sustainable consumption helps to undermine conven...

Groundhog thinking

Ecosystem services markets are set up across the EU to try to protect the soil. Farming then becomes a complex process of asset management and trading, and production declines rapidly.

Climate Trade Tax based on fossil fuels emissions per capita

Due to growing climate change concerns, the European Union introduces a new Climate Trade Tax on all goods and services, taking into account countries’ carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels (including gasoline, light oil...