Ashoka Mody: Italy will need a precautionary bailout — a ‘financial firewall’ — as coronavirus pushes it to the brink

The government is working on measures to accelerate the court hearings of borrowers who have found protection from confiscations under the so-called Katseli law; it is also forming its new bankruptcy code, whose central idea […]

This is not a sensationalist titbit. Currently British academics are striking to protect their pension funds. Once again basic workers’ rights are under attacs. At the same time scandalously high salaries are being paid to […]

Some things never change. Governments still protect banks. It does not matter what they do, as with the Royal Bank of Scotland. Read here