EU politics
BBC – Denmark election: Centre-left bloc comes out on top
Denmark’s centre-left bloc has secured the most votes in a general election widely seen as a confidence vote in the country’s leader. Read Here
Year: 2022
Economics
The Business Times: Nearly one-fifth of German industrial firms scaling back due to energy crisis
Nearly a fifth of companies in the German industry sector have responded to the energy crisis by scaling back production, found the latest DIHK business survey of 24,000 companies on Tuesday (Nov 1). Read Here […]
Austerity
Richard D. Wolff: A Deficit Spending Scam Destroyed UK’s Prime Minister – Who’s Next?
Why the British Conservative Party failed so miserably with its neo-liberal “Mini-Budget”, the principles of which had always worked before. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and […]
Economics
Walden Bello – Will China Replace the US …or Will the Two Powers Stalemate?
Financialization and globalisation have severely eroded the manufacturing base of the United States. Is the world headed for a “hegemonic transition”? Walden Bello, a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus, is the author or co-author of […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: It makes no economic sense to keep shrinking the state without changing what the state is meant to do
Shrinking the state makes everyone worse off by reducing national income – some of that income loss in the past has probably become permanent Read Here Wikimedia Commons
Deregulation
GPEnewsdocs – Richard Kozul-Wright: Repairing a fractured world economy?
The current state of global economic disorder, as presented in UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report, and possibilities and limits of effective regional responses. Richard Kozul-Wright is Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies […]
EU-Institutions
CEPR: How to get the European Banking Union unstuck
European Banking Union still has important gaps and deficiencies. A new CEPR Policy Insight analyses what it would take to get it unstuck. Read Here
Economics
Eurostat: Eurozone inflation hits record high of 10.7%, growth nears standstill
Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 10.7% in October 2022, up from 9.9% in September Read Here
National Politics
Jeffrey D. Sachs – Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Sinking the Congressional Dems—and Ukraine
The proxy war between the U.S. and Russia is devastating Ukraine, ironically in the name of saving Ukraine. Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor at Columbia University, is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at […]
Finance
Jeremy Corbyn – Lula’s Victory in Brazil Proves Transformative Change Is Won When We Are United
I saw first-hand how Lula’s victory came from a left-led coalition of political parties and social movements. Who needs focus groups when you have solidarity? Jeremy Corbyn is a Labour Party MP for Islington North […]