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Michael Roberts: Regulation of banks does not work

October 6, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

There is one big lesson from the Danske Bank money laundering scandal.  Regulating the modern banking system does not work.  Modern banks are now primarily giant hedge fund managers speculating on financial assets or they […]

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El Nacional Cat.: Spain withdrew billions of euros from Catalan banks after referendum

October 6, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The day after the Catalan independence referendum, so on 2nd October 2017, the Spanish state quietly removed the money public companies and authorities held in the two largest Catalan banks, Banc Sabadell and CaixaBank. Read […]

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Nick Shaxson – The Finance Curse

October 5, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The financial sector is hailed as the crowning glory of the UK economy. But as it blooms, everything else withers. This is true wherever the financial sector becomes dominant in the economy, similar to what […]

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Ashoka Mody: Why the euro failed

October 5, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

A 1700-word summary of Euro Tragedy. So if you do not manage to read this outstanding book, this is the next best thing. Read here  

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Nick Shaxson – The finance curse: how the outsized power of the City of London makes Britain poorer

October 5, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The financial sector is hailed as the crowning glory of the UK economy. But as it blooms, everything else withers. This is true wherever the financial sector becomes dominant in the economy, similar to what […]

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Novara Media: The Tories Are Facing Oblivion

October 5, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

A political dam has broken in the United Kingdom as Britons have discovered that austerity is neither good for them or their children, that the free market is not free, but serves the interest of […]

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Yanis Varoufakis – The new Italian government is continuing the failed Renzi strategy

October 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the English language (original) interview with Arcangelo Rociola, published on the AGI site in Italian, on the Italian government’s clash with Brussels over its budget deficit, the plans for a flat tax (that is […]

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Dimitar Lilkov – A step too far? The EU Commission’s proposal to tie budget payments to compliance with the rule of law

October 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The difficult process of negotiating the EU’s next seven-year budget covering the years 2021-27 is already under way. However, as Dimitar Lilkov writes, the negotiations may well prove more contentious than ever due to a […]

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Reuters: U.S inquiry deepens Danske money-laundering crisis

October 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why are corrupt EU banks so afraid of US investigations, but appear not to be concerned about consequences from the EU? Read here

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Cain Burdeau: Macron’s Star Dims as Ministers Leave, Public Sours

October 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Another one bites the dust. The corporate media cannot get enough of new heroes, who will save Europe´s doomed neo-liberal system. Who is going to replace Macron? Maybe there is a up and coming politician […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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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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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

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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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