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 SHANGHAI, March 26 (Reuters) - The China branch of the cotton trade body Better Cotton Initiative said on Friday it has not found forced labour related to cotton production in Xinjiang.The branch added that it will continue communication with its Chinese partners in Xinjiang. (Reporting by Josh Horwitz; Editing by Toby Chopra)China branch of Better Cotton Initiative trade body says it has not found forced labor in XinjiangYahoo NewsChina branch of Better Cotton Initiative trade body says it...

Wonkish but important if one is into Marxian economics and reconciling it with MMT.  Peter Cooper is one of the very few economists well versed in Marxian economics and MMT.heteconomistMARX & MMT – Currency Value and its Relationship to Price StabilityPeter Cooper

Spot on.InvestingThe Most Powerful Woman On Earth?Boris Schlossberg

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Zero HedgeIran Fires Missile At Israeli Ship In Arabian Sea: ReportTyler DurdenRTTaiwan says it’s now making long-range missile capable of striking ChinaMedia blame Iran as missile hits Israeli-owned ship in Arabian SeaOilpriceMost Hydrogen Is A “Climate Killer”: Enel ExecutiveCharles KennedyChina Overtakes U.S. As World’s Largest RefinerFelicity BradstockPeople’s Bank of China Goes All-In On Clean EnergyJulianne Geiger Strategic Culture Foundation  (hemorrhaging soft power)America Against...

Wowsers. Full-on Murray Rothbard. Private money.EconbrowserThus Confirming Everything I Thought about Both The Independent Institute and Judy SheltonMenzie Chinn | Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin–Madison, co-editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research International Finance and Macroeconomics

Mostly innovative digital technology. China is now an Internet society, having leapfrogged most of the developmental process taken previously and assumed to be the "normal" course by going directly to digital communications and high-speed rail, for example.  Emerging countries are watching.ECNSChina issues plan to encourage new types of consumptionXinhua

As it emerged that China is serious in following through on its threats of boycotting western clothing makers, shares of China's Anta Sports Products and Li Ning surged, while shares in Adidas, Inditex and H&M fell when European markets opened on Thursday: Burberry shares fell as much as 6.3%, Adidas was down as much as 6%, Inditex slipped as much as 1.9%; Nike was down 4% in premarket trading.Zero HedgeWhy Corporations Are Terrified Of China: Nike, H&M Tumble After Boycott Begins...

The European Union officials seem to be ‘playing violins while the nations burn’, given Covid-19 is running out of control still (another wave coming) and new variants are outpacing the vaccine rollout (which wouldn’t be hard given how slow it has been). New extended lockdowns are coming, mass insolvencies are coming (once the relaxation of rules occurs), unemployment remains at obscene levels, and the whole show is lurching into stagnation, of the type only the EU elites can create. But...

The book Agent-Based Models in Economics: A Toolkit (Amazon affiliate link) is a collection of articles edited by by Domenico Delli Gatti, Giorgio Fagiolo, Mauro Gallegati, Matteo Richiardi, and Alberto Russo. (I will refer to them as "the editors" in this article...) I picked up this book as it appears aimed at my new interest in agent-based models....Bond EconomicsBook Review: Agent-Based Models In Economics: A ToolkitBrian RomanchukSee also at Brian'sI have put up a non-paywalled draft...