National Politics
Politico: Keir Starmer to make good on his vow to stop Jeremy Corbyn running for UK Labour
Keir Starmer’s war on the Labour left continues. Read the article HERE.
Year: 2023
Economics
Michael Roberts – Banking crisis: is it all over?
An overview of where we are up to with the banking crisis, which may have years still to run Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ […]
EU politics
Mathias Bernard – French governments’ long record of bypassing parliament: a brief history of article 49.3
Many French presidents have used article 49.3 to force through reforms, only to have to backdown later as their legitimacy is undermined and protests grow Mathias Bernard is a historian at the Clermont Auvergne university […]
Economics
Mareike Beck – The Credit Suisse crisis and the contradictions of global finance: Three fallacies and a proposal
Incisive read explaining why Central Bank ‘solutions’ to the banking crisis aren’t actually fixing anything. Mareike Beck is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King’s College London. Cross-posted from the LSE EUROPP blog Banking is […]
EU politics
Maxime Borg – Behind the Liberal Democrat Macron is an authoritarian
This is an outstanding description of the current political situation in France Maxime Borg is a political economist at the European University Institute’s Department of Political and Social Sciences This is a thread posted by […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – In defense of equality (without welfare economics)
Inequality should be limited so that it does not affect opportunities, so that it does not slow growth and so that it does not undermine democracy Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and […]
Financial Institutions
David Shirreff – Fifteen wasted years of attempted bank reform
Regulators have squandered the fifteen years since the last financial crisis, and failed to bring real change to the banking system – as the past couple of weeks have shown. David Shirreff is a financial […]
EU politics
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – Ponsatí torna desafiant Madrid
Toni Strubell és exdiputat al Parlament de Catalunya, periodista i autor d’El que volen els catalans Núria Bassa Camps és una escriptora i fotògrafa catalana Read this article in English HERE Després de cinc anys […]
Economics
MMT Podcast – Warren Mosler: Anatomy of a Bank Run
Patricia and Christian talk to MMT founder Warren Mosler about the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and more Listen HERE
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck: Back to the Nationstate?
In this talk Wolfgang Streeck will explain why the sovereign nation-state is the only democratic form of political organization in post-neoliberal capitalism. Wolfgang Streeck was Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1988-1995) and […]