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Joseph Baines, Sandy Brian Hager – Commodity trading: the shadowy industry destroying the planet

May 4, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Commodity traders wreak havoc on global markets and profit from ecological and social devastation. Can they be stopped? Joseph Baines is a lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London Sandy Brian Hager is […]

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Thomas Fazi – Mario Draghi: don’t believe the hype

May 3, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Draghi is just another Emmanuel Macron Thomas Fazi is a writer, journalist and translator. His latest book ‘Reclaiming the State’ is published by Pluto Press. Credit: Getty Ever since the former president of the European […]

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Dean Baker – Financial Transactions Taxes: The Perfect Way to Pay for Infrastructure Programmes

May 3, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

It’s back! The Financial Transactions Tax is just as valid as it was years ago before it was ignored to death by the political class. And although Modern Monetary Theory explains why taxes are not […]

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Michael Roberts – Wealth inequality

May 2, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Wage inequality is low in comparison to wealth inequality. That is where redistribution will have to happen. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael’s Blog I […]

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EU Announces Further Success in Degrowth Policy: GDP down by 0.6% in the euro area and by 0.4% in Q1

May 1, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

In the first quarter 2021, seasonally adjusted GDP decreasedby 0.6% inthe euro areaandby 0.4%in the EU,compared with the previous quarter, according to a preliminary flash estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European […]

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Ben Wray – Europe is Covered in Greenwash

May 1, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Five years after the Paris Agreement, consensus reigns among governments, yet emissions continue to rise nonetheless. Ben Wray, Bella’s European Feature Writer, finds that government greenwash is now our biggest threat, and the European Commission […]

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María José Carmona – Can Europe roll-back the normalisation of precarious work for young people?

May 1, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Young people between 15 and 24 are likely to experience the greatest difficulties in finding work in the years ahead. Their transition to their first job and, more generally, to making a life of their […]

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Bill Mitchell: The IMF is all at sea, stuck in its ways, and sending conflicting signals

May 1, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

This has been going on for a couple of years now and seems to be increasing: the IMF presents enlightened policy papers and its leaders make progressive sounds – but all remains the same. Read […]

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The German V-Recovery that wasn’t: Gross domestic product in the 1st quarter of 2021 down 1.7% on the previous quarter

May 1, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Angela Merkel’s government knew it. A V-Recovery was on its was. Like the COVID vaccinations they just don’t appear to understand current conditions. Read here

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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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