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The Spectator – Revealed: Cambridge Analytica and the Passport King
Odd how in the end you end up with a network, which starts to conncet everything we call predatory capitalism together. Read here
Year: 2018
Finance
The Independent: Switzerland must ‘urgently’ do more to tackle bribery and protect whistleblowers, OECD says
Really? I doubt anyone in their wildest fantasies could have imagined this? How many millions did the OECD pay for this incredible study? Read here
EU politics
Andrew Dowling – Arrest of Carles Puigdemont closes another chapter in Catalonia’s bid for independence
Andrew Dowling, Cardiff University The detention of five leading Catalan pro-independence politicians, followed 48 hours later by the arrest and detention of deposed Catalan President Carles Puigdemont in Germany, brings the extraordinary and tumultuous events […]
EU politics
Evangelos Kontopantelis – Give millennials a break – young people are worse off and it’s not their fault
Millennials have been hardest hit by cuts. Antony Bennison, CC BY-NC Evangelos Kontopantelis, University of Manchester Young people are poorer than older people. And it’s not simply because the old have worked all their lives […]
EU politics
Reuters – Catalan academic fighting extradition from Scotland stirs nationalist tension
You do not have to be for Brexit, but nor do you have to be pro-EU. The SNP is looking very foolish at the moment with regard to Clara Ponsati. In such situations one sees […]
Economics
Renegade Inc: Everything you think you know about the financial crisis is wrong
“Without deep pockets and a structured network to carry your ideas, the left and heterodox economists are up against one of the most well-funded ideologies in the world.” Read here
Corruption
Larry Elliot: Is it time to break up the tech giants such as Facebook?
The United States has been promoting monopolies for decades. This has been supported by a perversion of free market economics: monopolies provide cheaper prices and thus benefit consumers. Maybe at the till, but what about […]
Economics
Marcello Minenna: Understanding the differences between German and Italian investment spending
Italian austerity has left the nation in economic doldrums. None of this has been helped by the austerity dogma that has dominated Europe for almost a decade. It is not only Italy, but also Spain […]
Economics
Thomas Fazi – Public Debt In The Eurozone: A Political Problem
Public debt has been an important tool for furthering neo-liberal policies, especially in the EU. In the Great Financial Crisis not only did governments have to bail out private banks, but clean up the economic […]
Economics
Resolution Foundation – Two housing crises
This may be explicitly about the houing situation in Britain, but a number of its conclusions can be carried over to other EU nations. By Ian Mulheirn, Director of Consulting at Oxford Economics Cross-posted from […]