Economics
Bill Mitchell – Corporate profit greed is driving inflationary pressures
Corporations highly destructive market power is key to the inflation crisis. Read the article here.
Month: August 2022
Aviation
Ben Davies: Ban Private Jets
This would be common sense if governments were even slightly serious about reducing carbon emissions. Read the article here.
Economics
Lynn Parramore – America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
Researchers find that the nation had become an outlier among other rich countries in mortality rates long before the pandemic – and that Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad. Lynn Parramore is Senior […]
EU politics
Joseph Downing – The EU’s Digital Services Act: Europeanising social media regulation?
Should we worry that Brussels technocrats, which we can’t kick out of office, will decide what is illegal online content? This article is cross-posted from LSE’s European Politics and Policy blog Big tech has been blamed for […]
EU politics
Peter Becker: Germany’s U-turn over the EU’s recovery funds was further evidence of its role as Europe’s ‘status quo power’
The EU recovery funds have been wrongly interpreted as a major policy shift – they were a minor tweak in order to maintain the current European order in a moment of acute crisis Peter Becker […]
Economics
DeStatis: German Manufacturing in June 2022: new orders down 9% year on year
New orders in manufacturing:June 2022 (in real terms, provisional): -0.4% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -9.0% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted ) May 2022 (in real terms, revised): […]
National Politics
Amnesty International: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians
Military bases set up in residential areas including schools and hospitals Attacks launched from populated civilian areas Such violations in no way justify Russia’s indiscriminate attacks, which have killed and injured countless civilians Read Here […]
Economics
Eurostat: Volume of retail trade down by 1.2% in the euroarea and by 1.3% in the EU
Looks like a recession. Read Here
Economics
Branko Milanović – On import substitution, Fukuyama, eternal growth and more
Branko’s conversation with James Pethokoukis from the American Enterprise Institute. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World” […]
Economics
Robin McAlpine – There are no adults in the room
It is becoming increasingly clear that with its decline liberal democracy is going into endtime mode. World leaders are acting like reckless school children and we should all be terrified Robin McAlpine is the director […]