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Issue 514 of New Internationalist

Reader-owned global journalism

July-August 2018

The next financial crisis

Ten years ago I took an entry-level economics class at school. It was September 2008. Lehman Brothers had just filed for bankruptcy. ‘It’s certainly an interesting time to be studying economics!’ the teacher said. It was – but you wouldn’t have known from the syllabus. There was nothing about the financial system. There were, however, plenty of elegant abstractions, showing the intersection of supply and demand in a timeless, spaceless universe.

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The next financial crisis

Clueless central banks? A trade war? Southern debt overload? Leading economists including Jayati Ghosh, Cédric Durand and...
Botswana

Botswana: losing its sparkle?

Wame Molefhe profiles Botswana, where prosperity has morphed into corruption and inequality.
Bisbee 17 at Hot Docs, Toronto

Mixed Media: Hot Docs

Highlights from the major documentary film festival held annually in Toronto, Canada.
The Carbon Bubble

The carbon bubble

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

How to make housing a human right

In major US cities, working people have been all but priced out, pushed into ever more distant fringes and suburbs. Mark Engler...

Against their will

Lea Surugue and Gisella Ligios report on the Roma women fighting to make the Czech authorities face up to the scandal of forced...

The interveners

In India, Sophie Cousins spends time with women activists who are slowly shifting the stigma around mental health and getting...
Isaias Afwerki

Worldbeater: Isaias Afwerki

We put the President of Eritrea’s track record – liberation fighter turned ruthless dictator – under the spotlight.

Is the ‘Data Mafia’ here to stay?

From the moment you were born, The Man With The Data knew you better than you knew yourself. Omar Hamdi explains.

Inside Hungary’s post-truth laboratory

Viktor Orbán, the country's autocratic hard man, is riding high, with the help of young propaganda-mongers. Lorraine Mallinder...
Julius sits on the porch of his house in Trenton, New Jersey, looking north at Ewing Township where foreclosure rates are drastically lower.

Home sweet home

The foreclosure crisis in the US is still a reality for many. Jack Crosbie reports on the human cost of finance.

China: a post-neoliberal order?

For Martin Jacques, 2008 represented the end of the Western-dominated financial system and the beginning of a Chinese century...

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