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Austerity

IMF internal watchdog condemns the institution’s mishandling of Greece “rescue”

July 31, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Here two articles concerning the report by the internal auditor of the IMF concerning its disastrous handling of Greece´s “financial rescue” Read here (easier to read) and here (better analysis)

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Global Finance: Auditing The Auditors

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Recent audit failures are bringing new scrutiny to the dominance and business practices of the Big Four accounting firms. Read here

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Bill Mitchell: The neoliberal ‘progressives’ and their bankster mates are becoming rattled

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The “Third Way” social democrats in Europe and “liberal democrats” in the US are politically bankrupt. Their only assets are the donations from financial institutions and international corporations, but as we saw with Hilary Clinton, […]

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This is Money: Fury at United Utilities as it pays £180m dividend while planning to impose a hosepipe ban on customers

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the sort of predatory capitalism being promoted by the EU neo-liberalism. Utilities should be privatised as the private sector is “more efficient”. This is just half the story. In the end the state […]

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New Economics Foundation – Reprotection: halting the EU’s deregulation drive

July 19, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

“Over the last decade, European politicians have started to undermine the protections that many people depend on. And Brexit is set to make things worse.” This raises the question of who understands the role of […]

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Tax Justice Network – Country by country reports: why “automatic” is no replacement for “public

July 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This article brings us up to date concerning the struggle to tackle tax haven by making their business transparent, and the attempts by the German government, big business, and the OECD to stymie this. By […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – Accounting for influence: how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance

July 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

We pay our taxes, so why don’t corporations? This new report shows how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance, and concludes that it is time to kick this industry out […]

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Politico: EU legislators rake in millions in outside earnings

July 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is just the tip of the iceberg. What about the jobs following their time at the EU? What about jobs now for their family members? What about the perks: travel, gifts, entertainment? What about […]

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David Whyte – Two neoliberal infernos: Grenfell, and Piper Alpha 30 years on

July 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Profit-before-safety, warnings ignored, 239 people dead. Britain’s oil bonanza and London’s gentrification have much in common. David Whyte is Professor of Socio-legal studies at the University of Liverpool. His most recent book is The Violence […]

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Prem Sikka: After decades of following a failed economic model, we need to reshape the state

July 6, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The neo-liberal state has become a guarantor of corporate profits and engineer for increased inequaltiy . This has to change. . Read here

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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