After ten years of wrongheaded and brutal spending cuts, Keynes’s warning that bad economics produces political extremism is more important than ever.
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Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Germany: Speechlessness is not politics – reflections at the turn of the year
A good review of the current situation in Germany. Short and to the point. Read HERE
EU politics
Jonathan Cook – How the IHRA antisemitism definition became a pro-Israel cudgel
New research charts a five-year campaign by highly partisan, pro-Israel lobby groups to mislead the international community about the nature of what has been widely described as the “gold standard” definition of antisemitism. Read here
Finance
Simon Wren-Lewis: A European Monetary Fund
Wren-Lewis takes a very sobering approach to the idea of creating a European Monetary Fund. The problem is, who should run it? Definitely not politicians, writes Wren-Lewis. He sees the technocrats as the lesser evil. […]
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