April 10, 2008
Economic rogues run amok in the world
By Charlie Smith



Author Loretta Napoleoni says the epicentre of the economic and financial world is moving eastward, which spells bad news for us in North America.

As democracy spread through the world in the 1990s, it was accompanied by a dramatic increase in slavery, according to the author of a new book. “The correlation between democracy and slavery is one of the consequences of rogue economics, a recurrent phenomenon in history, often linked to rapid and unexpected great transformations,â€