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Juan Laborda – Economic Orthodoxy: Responsible for the Next Spanish Recession (I)

June 30, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

In Spain a balanced budget, together with the combination of a fiscal surplus and current account deficit, would lead to a recession similar to that of 2008. This is supported by today’s PMI reading Juan […]

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Economics

Michael Roberts – Facing Up To Libra

June 30, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Continuing our series on Libra, we are posting an anlysis by the Marxist economist Michael Roberts. Libra is the name that Facebook, the global social network company, is calling its planned international digital currency. What […]

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Ben Wray – Are We Ready to Adapt to the Coming Age of Climate Refugees?

June 29, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The problem is that no one is seriously discussing most of the true consequences of the climate disaster. Plastic straws are almost irrelevant. This requires a policy upheaval that is nowhere to be seen. In […]

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Jorge Uxó, Nacho Álvarez – Can We Resuscitate Fiscal Policy in Europe?

June 29, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The EU economy is going nowhere (nor the EU for that matter), which is the essence of reactionary politics – and Germany is certainly providing the EU with enough of that. On the other hand […]

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Stan Jourdan – It is Time to Review the ECB’s Monetary Policy Strategy

June 29, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The ECB’s constant failure in forecasting and delivering inflation close to 2% is revealing an important crisis of thinking in the ECB’s policy making. 20 years after the creation of the euro and 10 years […]

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Richard Murphy – Facebook, Libra and the Threat It Poses to Government as We Know It

June 28, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The writing is on the wall. The neo-liberal strategy of the monopolists is clear. Richard Murphy analyses this, and its consequences, brilliantly. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of […]

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EU politics

RTE: EU and Mercosur group agree draft free trade deal

June 28, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Did anyone really expect anything else? What international corporations and Germany want from the EU, they get. Read here

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Finance

Trades Union Congress (TUC): Boom in gig economy workers shows struggle to make ends meet

June 28, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Growing numbers of workers are turning to often insecure and badly paid platform work, such as food delivery and cleaning, to top-up lacklustre wages.   A report by the University of Hertfordshire and Ipsos MORI has […]

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Economics

Spinoff: Why we can’t simply build our way out of the housing crisis

June 28, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

This may be about New Zealand but the analysis is spot on, valid for any EU nation. Read here

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Michael Jacobs – What Exactly is the Green New Deal?

June 27, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Since the inception of BRAVE NEW EUROPE we have been propagating the Green New Deal, especially thanks to the relentless Richard Murphy. It is the only alternative that we have to save the planet and […]

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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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