EU politics
David Shirreff – Brexit damage limitation
There is so much white noise in the media concerning Brexit, almost all of it by people who have no idea of what is really going on behind the scenes. David Shirreff tries to make […]
Articles by MDRose
Finance
New Weather Institute: The absent and violent corporation
Human beings, so used to ‘the customer is always right,’ are now to be bled from every angle and then treated as costs to be cut rather than assets to be cosseted. Read here
EU politics
The Guardian: Young people are borrowing to cover basic living costs, warns City watchdog
The economic situation of young people between 18 and 34 in Britain is deteriorating. Their indebtedness and over-indebtedness are increasing rapidly, but not because they are necessarily living beyond their means, but simply to meet essential […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell – Wolfgang Schäuble is gone but his disastrous legacy will continue
Bill Mitchell has a long, hard look at the legacy of Germany’s outgoing finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble. Read here
Finance
David Laws and Charles S. Adams – Is world-leading NHS healthcare an affordable proposition?
Two non-economists explain the creation of money and what becomes of it. It is a strightforward piece for those who get bogged down by technical economic terms. They also explain why a government debt is not […]
EU politics
Ignasi Bernat and David Whyte: Catalonia’s fight is driven by a passion for neighbourhood, not nationhood
The authors write: “The international community still fails to recognise that the region has witnessed an unprecedented revolution in participative democracy that started long before the referendum, and will almost certainly outlast any constitutional settlement.” […]
EU politics
Jonathan Burnett – Work, capital and the ‘administration of punishment’
Workfare is a British government policy whereby individuals must undertake work, often unpaid, in return for their benefit payments or risk losing them. It is not only part of Britain’s austerity regime, but has been […]
Finance
Richard Murphy – Thoughts on the IMF and World Bank
Murphy believes there could well have been a sea change at the IMF and World Bank. It is however one thing to produce analyses and papers making the right noises, and the IMF arguing that […]
EU politics
Kalwinder Sandhu: It’s no surprise that black and Asian women are hit hardest by austerity
In no nation Europe are the effects of austerity so well documented as in Britain – not that they are necessarily worse than in other parts of Europe, but simply not being reported. At BRAVE […]
Austerity
The Corruption of Capitalism – Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing
Book review by Mathew D. Rose In 2011 Guy Standing wrote a book titled “The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class”, which showed great prescience. By the second paragraph he had already predicted what would […]