Corruption
Malta Today – EU Corruption: EU President will not be appointing her brother-in-law as head of her Cabinet as planned
This is the woman who was supposed to lead the fight against corruption in the EU parliament Read Here
Year: 2023
Economics
S&P Global Eurozone Construction PMI: Most pronounced fall in Eurozone construction activity since May 2020
December data signalled an eighth successive monthly decrease in home building across the Eurozone. The contraction was steep overall and, when excluding COVID-19, the sharpest since March 2013. The drop in activity levels at German […]
Climate Crisis
Michael Roberts – Polycrisis and depression in the 21st century
The horrific UN report on the state of humanity Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog ‘Polycrisis’ is the buzz word among leftists right now. […]
National Politics
Jonathan Cook – Is Ben-Gvir preparing a holy war against the Palestinians?
By visiting Al-Aqsa, the Jewish Power leader showed he has the whip hand – and there are surely more provocations up his sleeve Jonathan Cook is the the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian […]
Climate Crisis
Mongabay: The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms
Why is it newsworthy that a nation bans subsidies to criminal corporations? Becuase it hardly ever happens. Our whole economic system is based on criminality and rapaciousness. Read Here
Economics
Shaun Richards: The ECB and Christine Lagarde now want to enforce real wage cuts for Euro area workers
Inflation made workers even worse off as real wages fell. Now the ECB is determined to stop wages exceeding inflation for any form of catch-up let alone growth. Read Here
Economics
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Piero Sraffa and the non-existent supply curve
Most people think economics can be summarised in just two words – supply and demand. Where they cross that determines price and as they move the price moves. But what if the supply curve is […]
Economics
Macro & Cheese – Robert Hockett: FTX and the Fall of Cryptocurrency
All digital currency is not created equal. Its technology can potentially be used as a force for good or a force of evil. Robert Hockett joins Steve to discuss both. Let’s start with the evil. […]
Corruption
GPEnewsdocs – Harris Gleckman: 50 years after Allende at the UN – a corporate triumph named multistakeholderism
Remembering Salvador Allende’s speech at the UN in 1972 and the call of world nations for a New International Economic Order, Harris Gleckman explains how global corporations were more effective at setting the rules. Harris […]
Economics
Thomas Ferguson, Servaas Storm – The Great Inflation Debate: Supply Shocks and Wealth Effects in a Multipolar World Economy
Setting the record straight and identifying less destructive pathways forward than round after round of interest rate increases. Thomas Ferguson is Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston Servaas Storm is a Dutch economist and author […]