EU politics
Prem Sikka: When will the bankers who’ve rigged our economy be held to account?
Regulators are incapable of protecting the public from economic crime, writes accounting expert Prem Sikka. Read here
Year: 2018
Economics
Ann Pettifor: Why the Federal Reserve is as much to blame for Turkey’s economic crisis as Donald Trump
It is necessary to point to the Fed’s actions to understand tremors in world markets, but central bankers should never have been held solely responsible for the restoration of macroeconomic stability Read here
Corruption
Alexander Clapp: A Greek Bearing Gifts
Oligarch watch. Fascinating article. We need to start thinking about the Transnational Network of Plunder (TNP) as the unit of analysis. Read here
Economics
Cristina Re – The false liberalism of ordoliberalism
In the West, from the Second World War until the 1970s, the ideology that won the battle within civil society by becoming hegemonic was Keynesianism. From the 80’s onward a clear change occurred with the […]
Economics
Stephanie Kelton – Where does the money come from?
How governments finance their expenditures. What Is Money? What Is Money?Ryan Grim interviews Stephanie Kelton, economic adviser for Bernie Sanders 2016, about MMT by popular demand from our audience. There will be time for questions […]
EU politics
Victoria Canning, Alaa Kassab, and Karam Yahya – From Syria to Scandinavia: Navigating the Refugee Reception Crisis
Since 2015, Europe’s so-called refugee crisis has been the centre of intense debate. But what if we began to look at it another way: as a refugee reception crisis? Rather than a crisis in the […]
Finance
Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson – The enemy between us: how inequality erodes our mental health
Inequality creates the social and political divisions that isolate us from each other. Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson are professors of epidemiology, co-founders of The Equality Trust, and authors of The Inner Level: How More […]
EU politics
The Real News – Is Jeremy Corbyn’s “anti-Semitism Crisis” a Smear Campaign? (Pt. 1/2)
“What is happening now is exactly what was happening in Nazi Germany in the 1930s”. No, not the National Front, but the Labour Party. Really? Beside corporate Media and supporters of Israel, no one seems […]
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: These councils smashed themselves to bits. Who will pick up the pieces?
Experts saw it coming – it was inevitable: The neo-liberal discourse that private is better. It is pernicious. The question is when the British will stop voting for Tory ideology and hoping a fairytale will […]
Corruption
Valerio Alfonso Bruno – Mind the Gap! On the Irreconcilable Distance between Europe´s Social Democrats and the People (and how Populisms filled it)
Europe is witnessing the disappearance of social democratic political parties. Tradition conservative parties are heading inexorably in the same direction. Europe is going through radical changes with regard to parties. The question is if political […]