As European neo-liberal enforcers go into meltdown (political zombies like Renzi and Rajoy are gone, Merkel and May will follow) the European political class has a new strategy: ever bigger lies. In this blog Bill Mitchell looks at the Germans European unemployment insurance proposals that aren’t.
Finance
Branko Milanovic: If you want to be rich, you’d better be born in, or emigrate to a rich country
Branko Milanovic explains the current state of global inequality Read here
EU politics
Tax Justice Network: EU tax haven blacklist blocks just 1% of financial secrecy services threatening EU economies
The Tax Justice Network is calling on the EU to shift away from its reliance on a tax haven blacklist that misses all major targets, and instead to impose a 30 per cent withholding tax […]
Corruption
Nick Shaxson – The finance curse: how the outsized power of the City of London makes Britain poorer
The financial sector is hailed as the crowning glory of the UK economy. But as it blooms, everything else withers. This is true wherever the financial sector becomes dominant in the economy, similar to what […]
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