Climate Crisis
Energy Monitor: Investor lawsuits could slow the energy transition
Investor-state dispute settlements could allow fossil fuel investors to slow government plans. Read here
Regulation
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Big Tech brings out the big guns in fight for future of EU tech regulation
The next big EU lobby battle is already underway: Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are among the companies making huge efforts to shape the upcoming Commission proposals to regulate the digital market. Read here
Regulation
Dean Baker, Achal Prabhala, Ariun Jayadev – Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual Property Rights
India and South Africa have called for developers to reduce barriers to mass-producing generic Covid-19 vaccine by waiving intellectual property rights Dean Baker the senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Achal […]
Economics
Tony Milligan – Lunar gold rush could create conflict on the ground if we don’t act now
Tony Milligan is Senior Researcher in Ethics with the Cosmological Visionaries project, King’s College London Cross-posted from The Conversation The only six sites on the farside of the Moon suitable for telescope arrays of around […]
Finance
Dean Baker – Beating Up On Finance
A financial transaction tax and a spotlight on private equity managers’ payouts could cut down the cost of finance to the rest of the economy Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: ECB operations are like the wild west and beyond democratic legitimacy
“For a monetary system that professes virtue because it is so rule-driven, the day-to-day reality is a sort of ad hoc adventure where there are no rules.” Read here
Austerity
Euro Intelligence: Wolfgang Munchau in conversation with Yanis Varoufakis on Trumpism, fiscal discipline and the US-China Cold War
The part concerning the EU crisis is probably the most interesting, but you can decide that for yourself Listen Here
Corruption
Carlos Rodríguez: En Madrid están matando al sector de taxi
Volviendo a la realidad del neoliberalismo de la UE, cuyo lema es “Nunca dejes que una buena crisis se desperdicie”. El gobierno regional de Madrid sólo está aplicando la política de la UE Carlos Rodríguez, […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory: CAP vs Farm to Fork
Will we pay billions to destroy, or to support biodiversity, climate, and farmers? Read here
Austerity
Emma Clancy – EU Recovery: Public debt and the ECB
Emma Clancy’s talk in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”. If you wish to know what is really occurring in the EU, Emma is one of the experts. We would like to thank the […]