Economics
EU: Where youth unemployment over 15% is normal (soon 20%?)
How the EU political class is sabotaging Europe’s future. But if you wish to introduce developing world wages in the EU, this is the way. Read here
Month: March 2021
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: We are undermining our futures by deliberately wasting our youth
We see that not only is the EU killing its present, but in doing so, it is also undermining its future prosperity because of the way youth are losing out in Europe. Read here
Climate Crisis
Lynn Parramore – Meet the “New Koch Brothers” – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal
Wealthy predators are playing stock market games with companies needed to develop and produce clean technology Lynn Parramore is Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Cross-posted from the website of Institute […]
Economics
Pavlina Tcherneva – Guaranteeing the Right to Decent Work
The job guarantee is an ambitious proposal that aims to ensure everyone in society has access to fairly waged, decent work. Pavlina R. Tcherneva is an Professor for Economics at Bard College, Director of the […]
EU politics
Danny Dorling – Why has the UK’s COVID death toll been so high? Inequality may have played a role
This question is also being raised in the USA, however not in the EU, which also has a very high death rate. Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford Cross-posted from […]
Corruption
Lee Jones, Shahar Hameiri: COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed massive failures of governance at the global and national levels. Global health governance failed rapidly, with action quickly becoming nationally based, uncoordinated, and often zero-sum. However, domestic health governance also […]
Corruption
Euro Intelligence: Oops, Germany forgot to buy the self-tests
When a nation is guided by endemic corruption, the diktat of corporations, and a toxic ideology it loses the ability to run a nation or fulfil its basic duties. In the case of Germany this […]
Economics
Albena Azmanova, Marshall Auerback – Bad Stimulus: Government Payments to Individuals Are a Terrible Way to Solve America’s Structural Economic Problems
Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package is necessary for a rapid recovery for all, but it’s only a first step toward attaining broader economic security. Albena Azmanova is an associate professor of politics at the University […]
Corruption
Wolfgang Streeck – Passing Hot Potatoes: the Vaccine Wars
You can never be sure who is doing what and why in and around Brussels, the most impenetrable political socio-type since the demise of the Soviet Union. Wolfgang Streeck is the Emeritus Director of Director […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – No V-Recovery for Britain
Yesterday the British Chancellor presented his new budget. What is happening in Britain reflects what is occurring in the EU. Things are not going to plan. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of […]