Climate Crisis
New Economic Foundation: Beyond the bottom line
How green industrial policy can drive economic change and speed up climate action Read HERE
Regulation
Financial Institutions
David Shirreff – Fifteen wasted years of attempted bank reform
Regulators have squandered the fifteen years since the last financial crisis, and failed to bring real change to the banking system – as the past couple of weeks have shown. David Shirreff is a financial […]
Financial Institutions
Mathias Dewatripont, Peter Praet, André Sapir – The Silicon Valley Bank collapse: Prudential Regulation Lessons for Europe and the World
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank offers insights about prudential regulation, including two main lessons. Mathias Dewatripont is Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Peter Praet is former Chief Economist and member […]
Finance
Ellen Brown – What Will Happen When a Bank Goes Bust?
The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act allows Systemically Important Financial Institutions to bail in or expropriate their creditors’ money in the event of insolvency. You have been warned! Ellen Brown is an attorney, founder of the Public Banking Institute, […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – The ECB’s interest rate hike is a grandiose mistake
The ECB’s decision on 2 February to raise interest rates again by 0.5 percentage points and to announce an equally large increase for March will go down in history as a grand misjudgement. Although it […]
Economics
Shaun Richards – Central bankers are experiencing a complete loss of credibility
Central banks have lost control of both the narrative and the markets. Read Here
Finance
Chloe Musto – Concerns Raised over Vested Interests of Lords Pushing for Financial Deregulation
All UK Peers voicing support for measures to deregulate the City have ties to financial services Chloe Musto is Media and Campaigns Officer at Positive Money Cross-posted from Positive Money Debate over the government’s new […]
Climate Crisis
Mongabay: The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms
Why is it newsworthy that a nation bans subsidies to criminal corporations? Becuase it hardly ever happens. Our whole economic system is based on criminality and rapaciousness. Read Here
Climate Crisis
Clare Carlile – Sowing Doubt: How Big Agriculture is Delaying Sustainable Farming in Europe
New analysis sheds light on key industry lobbying tactics at a decisive moment for the future of agriculture Clare is a Researcher at Desmog, focusing on the agribusiness sector Cross-posted from DeSmog UK In the […]
Corruption
Thomas Fazi: How lobbyists captured the EU
Qatargate is merely the tip of the iceberg Read Here