With neo-liberalism, the ethos of private gain came to dominate our political culture. Now, we have a crisis of trust in politics Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. Branko will be […]
Politically you can ignore some of the people some of the time…but you can’t ignore all the people all of the time. For many years European citizens have intuitively opposed unaccountability, a lack of political […]
This week, the too-big-to-fail bank lobbyist Jose Manuel Campa has been nominated to be the new head of the European Banking Authority – the very authority that is in charge of supervising those powerful banks. […]
What happened to the Far Right threat to the EU? Despite all the threats and resulting headlines it has disappeared. Probably because they may no longer be a threat to the EU, but the saviour […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
In the EU there are apparently laws that do not apply for politicians, especially when it is a question of their bank accounts. Read here
This article features extracts from Richard Brook’s new book, Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism. Read here See our review of the book here
Book review by Atul K. Shah As Private Eye journalist, Richard Brooks has long been responsible for exposing corporate corruption, especially around tax avoidance and evasion. One story kept on repeating in his research – […]
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