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Ben Wray: May’s demise may just be the end of the beginning for the Conservative Party’s decline
Ben Wray of CommonSpace analyses what Theresa May’s resignation may mean for her own fractious party Read here
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Globalists by Quinn Slobodian
Book review Mathew D. Rose About a year ago a few academics declared that one could not discuss neo-liberalism because it could not be defined. This seemed rather odd, seeing that the most important literature […]
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Tax Justice Network: Transforming local economies: the Preston Model
In this special extended edition of the May 2019 Taxcast we go to Preston in the North of England to see the Preston Model in action and how they’re transforming their local economy and democratising […]
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Bill Mitchell: Eurozone horror story continues
“The Eurozone is crawling along the growth gutter, mass unemployment is still at grossly elevated levels, poverty rates have risen, local community services are degraded, essential public infrastructure is in a growing state of disrepair, […]
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Elliot Kett: A New Film about Low Income Rural Britain
The Royal Society of Arts has put its finger on a misery too seldom recognised – the loneliness of the low-income farmer: farmers who can’t afford to eat the food they produce; families too poor […]
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Stan Jourdan – European Central Bank reveals it made huge profits from the euro crisis
Defending the euro actually showered profits on the European Central Bank – to the tune of 73 billion euros. But have the proceeds been fairly allocated? Stan Jourdan is head of Positive Money Europe Cross-posted […]
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Heiner Flassbeck – Common Sense and Macroeconomic Logic
Most economists and journalists don’t understand that when companies save rather than borrow and make investments, the state must run a deficit – a lesson that surplus-crazy Austrians and Germans have not learned, yet. Heiner […]
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Bloomberg: College Grads Sell Stakes in Themselves to Wall Street
So we have it again. The commodification of human beings. It used to be known as slavery, now it is called “income sharing”. Isn´t the Sharing Economy so wonderful! Read here
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Jorge Amar and Scott Ferguson – Power, Corruption & Lies: A Left View of the Upcoming Spanish Election
Spain and Catalonia are heading into an election. Jorge Amar and Scott Ferguson analyse the current economic and political situation. Jorge Amar is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and the […]
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Servaas Storm – How to Ruin a Country in Three Decades
As Italy enters its third recession in a decade, its austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone. Although a bit long, it is time well invested as Storm astutely analyses the current economic and […]