Finance
Financial Review: Private dinner between Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC chiefs in spotlight
Four accountants walk into a room. What could possibly go wrong? Read here
Month: February 2019
Austerity
Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, Gabriel Zucman: Economics After Neoliberalism
This is an interesting new development and well worth following. Contemporary economics is finally breaking free from its market fetishism, offering plenty of tools we can use to make society more inclusive. Read here
EU politics
Rob Brown: The Scottish National Party’s Great Moving Right Show
If one had any questions about how right the Scottish National Party, similar to some of its Catalan counterparts, has moved, this article will enlighten you. A truly riveting piece. Read here
Climate Change
Richard Murphy – Does the Green New Deal need modern monetary theory?
You know we are making progress towards a Green New Deal when alternative finance concepts can be discussed. The “if” is receding, being replaced by the “how”, hopefully soon to be replaced with the “when”. […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – Poverty of vision of “liberal interventionists”
This is not only a good read, but describes a mind set of liberalism that, as Milanović points out, leaves mostly death and destruction in its wake. One can add that just as the IMF […]
Corruption
Bill Mitchell: The EU is neoliberal to its core and captured by corporate interests
“The neoliberalism of the EU is core. The whole house has to be torn down, the block cleared, and new foundations laid.” Read here
Austerity
Steve Keen: When the Swabian hausfrau saves, what does she do to your bank account?
30 January 2019, Steve Keen in Berlin in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”. Begins at 6:30 If you are tired of complaining about how awful state and corporate media is and wish for […]
Corruption
Richard Holden – Vital Signs: when watchdogs become pets – or the problem of ‘regulatory capture’
Australia’s two financial watchdogs have been criticised for their cuddly relationship with banks. Shutterstock Richard Holden, UNSW Markets require regulators. As Adam Smith, the champion of the invisible hand, notes in The Wealth of Nations, […]
EU politics
OCCRP – Belarus: Equipping a Dictator
The EU has funded surveillance and patrol equipment worth more than 2 million euros for the benefit of Belarusian border authorities implicated in rights abuses, a Danwatch and OCCRP probe into EU-funded tenders and contracts […]
Economics
The Guardian – Facebook: Key points from parliamentary inquiry into disinformation
At 108 pages and covering a wide terrain, comprehensive report damns Facebook Read here