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Tax Justice Network – Netherlands, Blocking EU’s Covid19 Recovery Plan, has cost EU Countries $10bn in Lost Corporate Tax a Year

April 8, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The EU always emphasizes its high moral standards. Anyone familiar with EU policy knows this is complete rubbish. What sort of morality would permit the treatment of Greece in its crisis (EU: “We saved Greece”)? […]

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Thomas Fazi: Could Covid-19 vanquish neoliberalism?

April 8, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

This crisis is exposing the folly of applying market-based logic to every domain of human life Read here

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BBC: Lufthansa makes ‘permanent’ cuts as travel plunges

April 8, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is indeed good news for the climate, but at the same time bad news for the employees. The German government should now expand (actually reinstate all the services they have reduced) the rail service. […]

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Steve Keen – Coronavirus: Inflation or Deflation? Why we need a Modern Debt Jubilee Now

April 7, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Everyone is fearful of inflation because this was pounded into their heads by politicians and mainstream media over decades. It is all they know. But as Steve Keen writes, it is all about debt deflation. […]

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Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – Authoritarianism wins in Spain: COVID-19, Assange and Cuixart

April 7, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Spain’s state terror takes no end, even in the midst of the human catastrophe we are all going through. And what we are seeing in  the case of Julian Assange is no different. Toni Strubell  […]

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Jamie Jordan, Vincenzo Maccarrone, Roland Erne – There is little evidence the EU’s post-crisis economic governance regime has moved in a more ‘social’ direction

April 7, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

What? The EU, that most perfect institution in the world, putting neo-liberal policy before the welfare of its citizens? Why did no one tell us? Maybe the Brexiteers were onto something after all. Read here

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Steven Truxal: COVID-19 airport slot rules: what’s changed and what’s next for European airlines?

April 7, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

How the wasteful and plodding  EU bureaucracy had thousands of empty planes flying round the world for weeks. Read here

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Sony Kapoor, Willem Buiter – To Fight the COVID Pandemic, Policymakers must Move Fast and Break Taboos

April 6, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Crossing the Rubicon of monetary financing. COVID-19’s economic impact on crumbling GDPs, collapsing tax revenues and ballooning fiscal deficits will be much larger than what has been reported thus far. Any hesitation in throwing everything […]

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Heiner Flassbeck – The Coronavirus and Developing Countries

April 6, 2020 David Shirreff 0

Developing countries face a double whammy, the health impact of the virus and their inability to pump out central bank money. Industrialised countries must come to the rescue, for the benefit of all Heiner Flassbeck […]

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Michael Roberts – Lives or Livelihoods?

April 6, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

An analysis of the risks involved in the response to the coronavirus. before, during, and after. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts Blog There […]

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

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Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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