Ten days on from President Trump’s whirlwind visit to Israel and Egypt, the images of showmanship remain, but the ceasefire (let alone talk of peace) is very evidently and predictably fraying. As I noted here when the plan was first published – its terms “almost guarantee Netanyahu will resume killing, perhaps initially at lower intensity”.
Finance
Prem Sikka: Billionaires are a threat to democracy
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Economics
Ann Pettifor: Central bankers, inflation “cousins” & the real threat to the global economy
“Kaye Wiggins in the Financial Times explains that private equity groups, including Blackrock, deliberately inflate the value of their own assets – by buying and then selling said assets to themselves. She shows that the […]
Economics
Prem Sikka: The takeover of GKN shows that the UK can’t build a sustainable industrial policy without reducing shareholder power
Does the UK have an industrial policy? Such a question is likely to become more acute as the UK seeks to forge new priorities to compete in the post-Brexit world. An answer can be teased […]
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