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Month: January 2018

Economics

Eurostat: What is the extent of contingent liabilities and non-performing loans in the EU Member States?

January 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

How many more scandals are to come out of this sector, not only in Britain but in other countries exposed to PFI? Relative to its GDP, Portugal has the highest level of PFI exposure (at […]

Economics

Chaminda Jayanetti – Carillion: A story of Britain’s fake markets

January 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The problem for Chaminda Jayanetti was that most of the areas in which PFI operates are “fake” markets with no true competition. “These markets are fake because they are entirely dependent on the taxpayer” Read […]

Deregulation

Allyson Pollock: Think Carillion is bad? Wait until you see what the government wants to do with the NHS

January 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Allyson Pollock, writing in the New Statesman, feared that the lesson hasn’t been learned. The government has its eye on outsourcing yet more NHS business to two autonomous sorts of companies NHS Property Services and […]

Deregulation

James Moore: Death of an out-sourcer

January 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

James Moore in the Independent lamented that PFI is bleeding Britain’s National Health Service dry. Read here  

EU politics

Gary Younge: This is not a Corbynite coup, it’s a mandate for his radical agenda

January 19, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Bill Clinton got it wrong. It is not about the economy, stupid. It is about the people. And when the economy does not serve the people, and there is no leftist alternative, then we shall […]

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EU politics

The Real News – Catalonia Independence Crisis Intensifies Spain’s Political Divide

January 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Is this the EU? An update concerning the strange political situation in Catalonia.  

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Austerity

Richard Murphy – Is realism the new ‘ism’?

January 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This article is sure to provoke debate. Richard Murphy is a catalyst who drives political and economic discussions forwards and this article is no exception. With neo-liberalism going from crisis to crisis in the UK, […]

EU politics

Chris Dillow: ON CAPITALIST HEGEMONY

January 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Do neo-liberal structures have a stranglehold on democracy? In the case of Greece we found out that it does. How can this be broken, asks Chris Dillow. Read here  

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Corruption

Corporate Europe Observatory – ECB President Draghi’s membership of mega-bankers’ club is “maladministration”

January 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

There was absolutely no reason for Mario Draghi to be there – and many against his participation. The decision of the European Ombudsman to ask the European Central Bank President to end his membership of […]

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Climate Crisis

DeSmog UK – Government Climate Plan has ‘Significant Gaps’, Experts Warn

January 17, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

First Germany declared it will miss its CO2 target. Now it appears that the same is true of the UK. Both governments have boasted for years about their ambitious green agenda. By Chloe Farand Cross-posted from […]

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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