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Heiner Flassbeck – Monsieur Macron, the Germans, and Europe

April 22, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

President Macron gave other European politicians a lesson in crisis management, especially to the Germans. Anyone who does not now understand that Europe and the euro are a matter of life and death will never […]

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Corruption

Corporate Europe Observatory – Don’t let Industrial Farming and Corporate Lobbies use the COVID-19 Crisis to Defend Continued Pesticide Use

April 22, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Nothing new at the EU. Germans and Austrians leading the attack against democratically initiated laws that were created to protect the environment. Germany’s Bayer/Monsato and BASF are two of the world’s largest pesticide producers, with […]

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Ben Wray: Care Homes a Privatisation Story

April 22, 2020 David Shirreff 0

The surprising number of coronavirus deaths in Scottish care homes conceals a greater scandal about the hollowing out of the the UK National Health Service. The 1996 privatisation of care homes was described by Allyson […]

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Harvard Business Review: Advertising Makes Us Unhappy

April 22, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The higher a country’s ad spend was in one year, the less satisfied its citizens were a year or two later. Their conclusion: Advertising makes us unhappy. Read here

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PierGiorgio Gawronski – Use Wealth Transfusion to Fight the Coronavirus

April 21, 2020 David Shirreff 0

Forget mutualised euro bonds. Only giant wealth transfers within the euro zone, and a cap on sovereign spreads, can reduce the shock to heavily indebted nations such as Italy over the long term. PierGiorgio Gawronski […]

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Austerity

Fran Boait – Coronavirus Exposes Deep Rooted Problems at the Heart of our Economy

April 21, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

From financialisation to structural oppression, Covid-19 is highlighting how dysfunctional our economic system really is. Fran Boait is Director of Positive Money Cross-posted from Positive Money Covid-19 has sent the world into turmoil. And in […]

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Economics

Steve Keen: Corona bailouts – for main street or Wall Street?

April 21, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Billions of dollars are being pumped into economies the world over to protect economies from COVID-19. Much of it comes in the form of government fiscal stimulus, funded through bond issuance. Some of it involves […]

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EU politics

Forbes: Denmark And Poland Fire Warning Shot To Europe’s Tax Avoiders, ‘You Won’t Get Bailouts’

April 21, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Poland and Denmark have sent a clear message to businesses that make use of tax havens, excluding them from government bailouts and coronavirus relief programmes. Read here

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Michael Hudson – US coronavirus ‘bailout’ scam is $6 trillion giveaway to Wall Street

April 21, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Moderate Rebels Facing the Covid-19 pandemic, the US Congress rammed through the CARES Act — which economist Michael Hudson explains is not a “bailout” but a massive, $6 trillion giveaway to Wall Street, banks, large […]

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Manifesto for a More Sustainable and Fairer Netherlands after Corona

April 20, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

We can make the Netherlands radically more sustainable and fair: five proposals for the Netherlands after Corona, signed by 170 academics. COVID-19 shakes the world to its foundations. The corona pandemic has already cost 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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