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Emma Clancy – Austerity Kills: EU Commission Demanded Cuts to Public Healthcare Spending 63 Times from 2011-2018

March 29, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The truth is that these things always end up being caused by EU neo-liberal policy, although they receive support from the various national governments, who like the EU politicians and technocrats, want to collect the […]

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Stanislas Jourdan – Time to Transform the ESM before it Dies

March 29, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

This week the Dutch government blocked a proposal to activate a special credit line for countries who need financial support to fight the Covid19 crisis. But the logic behind the Dutch position is backward-looking and […]

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Economics

Frances Coppola – Corona Crisis: When is the Right Time for UBI and Helicopter Money?

March 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

  Frances’s brilliant book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing” examined the strategic use of helicopter money. Today is the wrong time, she concludes. Frances Coppola is the author of the Coppola Comment finance and economics blog, […]

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Nick Shaxson – Could the Wealth in Tax Havens Help us Pay for the Coronavirus Response?

March 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

In this Corona Crisis a radical redistribution of wealth is necessary, and what better place to find it than on the “Treasure Islands”. But there is more, much more to this. Nick Shaxson is an […]

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Costas Lapavitsas: This Crisis Has Exposed the Absurdities of Neoliberalism. That Doesn’t Mean It’ll Destroy It

March 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The coronavirus shock has shaken the world’s stock markets, imposing the need for massive state bailouts. But the measures to deal with the crisis risk spurring an authoritarian controlled capitalism — one that protects corporate […]

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Ben Gummer: Coronavirus will change nothing

March 28, 2020 David Shirreff 0

Ben Gummer, a former UK health secretary, now an Oxford history don, wrote a decade ago about the impact of the fourteenth century Black Death. The pandemic, however dreadful, will soon be forgotten by policymakers. […]

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Aidan Hehir: Kosovo’s government just fell – but it’s down to US meddling rather than coronavirus

March 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

When the government of Kosovo fell on March 25 after losing a no-confidence vote, some reports suggested it was prompted by the government’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. This is simply not true. Instead, it […]

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Economics

Positive Money Europe: Helicopter money is the vaccine against a long-lasting Covid-19 recession

March 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Europe needs helicopter money to cope with the severe upcoming recession while avoiding a massive unsustainable debt burden. As soon as the economic recovery phase starts, the ECB should boost consumption in a fair way […]

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Sergi Cutillas, Albert Medina, Pablo Cotarelo, Marc Lascorz – Corona Bonds: Administer with Caution

March 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Germans are not going to give up their EU hegemony. With weaponised finance they can maintain their predominance. Remember what happened to Greece as it rebelled against this. Sergi Cutillas is an Economist Researcher […]

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Heiner Flassbeck and Friederike Spiecker – Corona, Politics, and the European Challenge

March 27, 2020 David Shirreff 0

How deep will the crisis get? A lot depends on how countries will keep the economic machinery ticking over and combat those knee-jerk reactions to limit deficits, especially in Germany Heiner Flassbeck is an economist, […]

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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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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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