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James K. Galbraith: The Austerity Train Wreck
A skewering of the brutal austerity in Greece which led to the country’s train disaster. Read the article HERE.
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Heiner Flassbeck: Reform of the European fiscal rules? The German finance minister is blocking a reasonable reform
Germany is set on its iron fist economic discipline dogma that has caused so much damage to EU members. A look at the case of Greece. Read Here
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Branko Milanović – Recent trends in global income distribution and their political implications
Starts at Minute 1 The talk discussed the evolution in global inequality over the past thirty years. It will focus on the most recent 2008-2018 estimates of global income distribution and will draw political implications […]
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Stathis Kouvelakis, Costas Lapavistas: Greece’s Left Needs to Unite Behind an Alternative to Syriza
It’s always good to see the Greek left thinking about how to cohere a radical alternative to Syriza. Posted in Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
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Michael Hudson, Radhika Desai – Introducing the Geopolitical Economy Hour
In a new podcast, every fortnight economies Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson will discuss major developments in the fast-changing world of geopolitical economy. In this first podcast, they introduce the themes they will discuss and […]
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Danny Dorling – How austerity caused crisis in Britain’s national health service
The Health and Social Care Act of 2010 – privatisation by stealth – has been a slow-burn disaster for Britain’s National Health Service Danny Dorling is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford […]
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DiEM25: The ECB’s blackmailing of DiEM25 should concern us all
The ECB asked for 20,000 euros from DiEM25 in legal fees because it dared to demand information that should be available to anyone. This smacks of intimidation. Read Here
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Richard Murphy – Sunak’s talk of a £28bn cost of public sector pay rises is total CRAp
Debunking the usual government lie of “We can’t afford this”. Interest rates were attached to Quantitative Easing, so that banks get interest on money created by the BoE, in which they have done nothing to […]
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Chris Dillow – It’s not about the money
An excellently explained piece explaining why economics is about political priorities as well as human and physical resource limits. Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, and […]
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Bill Mitchell: IMF continue to demonstrate their neoliberal biases
Despite the claims and heralding that the IMF was becoming an enlightened institution, nothing has changed. Its practice of death and destruction is alive and well in Washington D.C. (where else?) Read Here