Finance
Frances Coppola: Deutsche Bank Faces A Smaller, Poorer Future
Another German Champion bites the dust. More to follow. Read here (Photo by Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Month: July 2019
Climate Crisis
Bill McGuire – Global Heating? Climate Breakdown is Now Coming to You in Real Time…
Bill McGuire writes that it is time to ‘Shout it from the burning Arctic, pop the luke-warm champagne!’ As the second blistering heatwave of the summer sets in and the streets of the capital begin […]
Economics
Ben Wray – Platform Capitalism: How Digital Platforms Took Over the World and What to do About It
CommonSpace editor Ben Wray examines the rise of the digital platforms, which are based on a fundamentally different set of characteristics than the global economic giants of the past Ben Wray is CommonSpace editor and […]
Climate Crisis
Adam Tooze: Why Central Banks Need to Step Up on Global Warming
A decade after the world bailed out finance, it’s time for finance to bail out the world. Read here
EU politics
Siddak Ahuja – Meet the Left fighting “wokeness” and Identity Politics
“There is a rising consensus amongst numerous Leftists that identity politics and wokeness are symbols of division rather than unit.” Read here
Energy
Montel News: French heatwave warning as EDF to shut 2.6 GW of capacity
This is just another drawback with regard to expensive, dangerous nuclear energy. This is no better than a cloudy or windstill day, but this fact is never mentioned. Read here
EU politics
Ashoka Mody – Let’s Choose the Best Person to Lead the IMF
The EU is dumping its rubbish politicians on the world, just like it dumps its plastic waste. The EU political class, a caste of entitlement. Ashoka Mody is Charles and Marie Visiting Professor in International […]
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – Europeans Deserve Better Than This
The EU has failed its citizens. It runs amok directed by Germany’s ossified and frail leader Angela Merkel, and a political class that primarily values its own entitlement. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist […]
Climate Crisis
Roz Pidcock – Decarbonisation is Getting Cheaper. Why?
Some good news for once: Efforts to tackle climate change took a boost recently when the UK became the first major economy to set a legally-binding net-zero target. Cutting the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by […]
Austerity
Renegade Inc with Grace Blakeley,James Meadway – Thatcher’s Museum: Are we living in it?
Margaret Thatcher is undoubtedly one of the most divisive characters in British political history. But whatever you think of her, she’s a woman whose economic policies have had repercussions that are felt today. She will […]