Atoning for their mortgage and pension mis-selling scams has cost the UK banks billions, but their payouts perversely kept consumer spending alive. What happens now?
Corruption
Nick Shaxson – The finance curse: how the outsized power of the City of London makes Britain poorer
The financial sector is hailed as the crowning glory of the UK economy. But as it blooms, everything else withers. This is true wherever the financial sector becomes dominant in the economy, similar to what […]
Geopolitics
France 24: Trump Board of Peace’s official Gaza fund is empty despite billions pledged, source says
Four months after its creation, the Gaza reconstruction fund of US President Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace has yet to receive any of the billions of dollars pledged by donor countries. Israel has continued […]
EU politics
El Nacional.Cat – Anwar: “Talking to Spain now is like sitting down with a gangster holding hostages”
“I’ve now become a student of Catalan politics and I have realised that the socialist party is the same side of the coin as Rajoy’s party. One lot are conservatives and the others socialists but […]
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