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Month: February 2019

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Politico – Trump to EU: Play ball or ‘we’re going to tariff the hell out of you’

February 25, 2019 David Shirreff 0

US president says EU is ‘maybe, in certain ways’ tougher than China. Read here

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The Globe Post: Catalan Separatists on Trial Pay Price for Spain’s Crude Transition to Democracy

February 25, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Watching the trials of the Catalan independentists now taking place at Spain’s highest court in Madrid, I have been reminded again and again of a scene from director Hal Ashby’s marvelous 1979 movie Being There. Read here

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John Weeks – Austerity in Europe and the global slowdown

February 25, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Progressive Economy Forum  Council member John Weeks writes on how the global economic slowdown is not the outcome of forces beyond human control, but rather an outcome of policy – in particular, of austerity in […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – TTIP reloaded: big business calls the shots on new EU-US trade talks

February 25, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Two years after the suspension of the highly controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), EU member states and the European Commission are preparing mandates for new trade negotiations with the US. But not much […]

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Finance Watch: Still Going Round in Circles: The Revolving Door Between Banks And Their Regulators

February 25, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

This week, the too-big-to-fail bank lobbyist Jose Manuel Campa has been nominated to be the new head of the European Banking Authority – the very authority that is in charge of supervising those powerful banks. […]

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The Real News Network – Spain Struggles for its Identity as Catalan Independence Leaders Face Trial

February 25, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

If you have not kept up with the show trial of Catalan leaders by Spain´s political class and the current political situation, this will bring you up to speed. Watch here

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Vassilis Petsinis – ’It is also the economy, stupid!’ The rise of economic euroscepticism in Central and Eastern Europe

February 24, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Although a very chaotic article, it contains a lot of information concerning euro-scepticism in Eastern Europe  – on the left, centre, and right. No surprise as the EU has done little to support these nations […]

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CNN – Libya: People for sale

February 24, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Slave trade in Libya. Thank you EU. Thank you Angela Merkel. Thank you Germany. Thank you Hilary Clinton. Thank you capitalism. Making the EU safe for neo-liberalism! Read here

Economics

The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain by Brett Christophers

February 24, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by John Tomaney In The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain, Brett Christophers claims that Britain’s biggest and most consequential privatisation is its least known and understood. The Margaret […]

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Stephanie Kelton – Rethinking Fiscal Policy

February 24, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Where does money come from? Lecture by Stephanie Kelton: Rethinking fiscal policy. Every school kid, worker to retiree should understand this so we can ask the real question: How to use our resources to serve […]

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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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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

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Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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