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Michael Roberts – Banking crisis: is it all over?

March 27, 2023 Ben 0

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’ […]

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Mathias Bernard – French governments’ long record of bypassing parliament: a brief history of article 49.3

March 27, 2023 Ben 0

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 […]

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Mareike Beck – The Credit Suisse crisis and the contradictions of global finance: Three fallacies and a proposal

March 27, 2023 Ben 0

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 […]

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Harrison Stetler: Emmanuel Macron’s Constitutional Coup Has Thrown France Into Crisis

March 22, 2023 Ben 0

Most French people oppose raising the pension age, and there was no parliamentary majority for the change. While the reform has now been railroaded through the National Assembly, mobilised opponents see a chance to finish […]

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Steve Keen: The Fractured Fairy Tales That Led To Today’s Banking Crisis

March 22, 2023 Ben 0

The only explanations for why Central Banks have not bought government bonds directly, and instead through the secondary market, are not based on logic or experience. Steve Keen is a Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for […]

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Michael Roberts: Bank busts and regulation

March 22, 2023 Ben 0

Stocks have rebounded, but this banking crisis is only just getting started – and the prominent solutions on offer to solve it are all inadequate Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and […]

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Prabir Purkayastha: The US and UK’s submarine deal crosses nuclear red lines with Australia

March 22, 2023 Ben 0

Aukas has been described by a former Australian Prime Minister as “the worst deal in all history”. The only logic to Australia signed up to securing American hegemony in the region. Prabir Purkayastha is the […]

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Michel Wieviorka: After Macron’s move to force through pension reform, all eyes are now on France’s trade unions

March 20, 2023 Ben 0

The pension strikes are helping to revive trade unionism in France as a significant political force Michel Wieviorka is a sociologist and member of the Centre for Sociological Analysis and Intervention (CADIS, EHSS-CNRS). Cross-posted from […]

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EU politics

Jean-Luc Mélenchon: France’s pension battle isn’t over

March 20, 2023 Ben 0

The France Insoumise leader writes in ‘Jacobin’ on where next after Macron forced through the pension reform. Read the article HERE.

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Lily Hamourtziadou: Iraq 20 years on: death came from the skies on March 19 2003 – and the killing continues to this day

March 20, 2023 Ben 0

The bombs began to rain down on Iraqis in the “shock and awe” campaign – and the killing never stopped Lily Hamourtziadou is a senior lecturer in Security Studies, Birmingham City University. Cross-posted from The […]

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Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, Doug Nicholls

September 4, 2026 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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