Finance
Maurice Stucke: Data Competition Won’t Protect Your Privacy
Regulators propose democratizing data and encouraging competition to reign in Big Tech. But such moves won’t go far enough in protecting user privacy. Read Here
Month: April 2022
Economics
Oren Cass: Searching for Capitalism in the Wreckage of Globalization
A journey to the centre of the neoliberal dogma Read Here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Deliberately creating mass unemployment now would be the work of vandals and New Keynesians
So there is an inflationary episode under way being driven largely by oil prices, which are fixed by an uncompetitive international cartel. Read Here Photo: Ben Lunsford licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
National Politics
New Yorker: How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens
The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it. Read Here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: IMF and World Bank at odds with each other over interest rate hikes
The inflationary surge is not a demand event and will not be resolved by further cutting nominal incomes. Read Here
Fake News
Phil Hammond – Why the West Hates Russia
The intense Russiaphobia of Western liberals long predates the invasion of Ukraine, and that its real source is the reluctance of liberal elites to tolerate any alternative to their political domination, at home or abroad. […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – The lessons and implications of seizing Russian oligarchs’ assets
What have the Russian and other oligarchs learnt from the seizure of assets by the US Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – The inflation debate
The rate of price inflation first depends on the growth rate of value creation Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael’s Blog Photo: TSGT MICHAEL AMMONS, USAF […]
Economics
South China Morning Post: Nowhere to hide for Chinese developers as slump deepens amid cash crunch, debt defaults despite easing measures
Home sales fell 25.6 per cent last quarter as concerns about credit squeeze, debt defaults sidelined buyers Local authorities in more than 60 municipalities have taken steps to unshackle the market from rules hobbling the […]
EU politics
Vila Web: The #CatalanGate: spyware on Presidents, MPs and other pro-independence leaders
Their mobile phones were attacked by Israeli NSO Group’s software since 2017 Read Here Pere Aragonès and Carles Puigdemont