The U.S. Created This Migration Crisis. Here’s How to Fix It.
It doesn’t involve more border patrol. Instead, policymakers need to address climate change and decades of bad U.S. foreign policy. By...
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Prices Don’t Have to Rule the World
By the Green European Journal When headlines report shocks, whether war- or climate-related, this provides a context for price hikes on...
Ukraine, Brexit, Arab spring have one source – prices, says sociologist
Following his 2022 book Price Wars, the sociologist and documentarian Rupert Russell speaks about how financial speculators have sown a...
Wall Street, Not the Kremlin, Is Primarily to Blame for Rising Commodity Prices
By Rupert Russell 'On July 5, the markets admitted they made a mistake. Despite betting for months that the war in Ukraine would produce...
How Commodity Speculators Drove War in Ukraine
By Rupert Russell You can read Rupert's full piece in the print edition of Tribune Magazine.
How Bad Is the Global Food Crisis Going to Get?
By David Wallace Wells "And yet the story of even the last 15 years is not at all smooth sailing when it comes to food and hunger. In a...
Are Worldwide Bread Riots Already Here?
Rupert Russell discusses 'Are Worldwide Bread Riots Already Here?' on Breaking Points with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti.
Why the Biden Administration’s Plan to Fix Gas Prices Isn’t Working
It’s tempting to believe high prices are all about price gouging. But the reality is far wilder. By Kate Aronoff. "The deregulation of...
Oil has long been used as a geopolitical weapon. Could electrified transport change that?
Petroleum industry associated with wild price swings and armed conflict by Andre Mayer. "Take Russia. In his new book, Price Wars: How...
‘What am I going to do?’: soaring prices fuel calls for US government to step in
By Tom Perkins. "Another force in some commodity price spikes: Wall Street speculation. Commodity markets were once heavily regulated...
Price Wars w/ Rupert Russell & Isabella Weber
Rupert Russell and Isabella Weber discuss Russell’s book Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World and also the...
Commodity Markets and the Making of Our Chaotic World
Rupert Russell appeared on the Realignment Podcast to discuss Price Wars and the war in Ukraine.
Into the Danger Zone
Ten page feature on Rupert in the print edition of Attitude Magazine.
How High Energy Prices Emboldened Putin
By Tim Sahay. "Media coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has focused on Vladimir Putin’s desire to patch the Soviet Union back...
Unless we act, escalating commodity prices will cause a decade of global turmoil
By Rupert Russell. The war in Ukraine has gone global. Spiking commodity prices are on track to see their sharpest rises since 1970, ...
Are Prices “Engines of Chaos”?
In a new book, Rupert Russell lays out a connection between financial speculation, hunger, and war. Listen to the Deconstructed Podcast...
The Art of Monetary War
Sanctions and the new phase of economic combat by Dominik Leusder "The evolution of global finance in this period may have also ...
How Commodity Traders Cause Global Chaos
Look no further than your local supermarket or gas station: the price of food and oil is through the roof. According to the USDA,...
How to Write a Book When You Have Dyslexia
Finding paths around his “can’ts” helped this Harvard PhD discover just how much he can. By Rupert Russell “Please write down the words...
Capital’s Chaotic Kingdom
This week, Grace talks to writer and filmmaker Rupert Russell about how apparently random movements in prices, often driven by...
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