Globalisation
Adam Tooze: Defining polycrisis – from crisis pictures to the crisis matrix
This is one way of looking at the precarious state of the world. Read here
Finance
Economics
Dean Baker – Neoliberals Do Not Like a Free Market, but They Want You to Think They Do
Monopolies are the business model of choice for large corporations and financial institutions. State bailouts are their answer to a free market Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy […]
Austerity
Declassified UK: Jeremy Corbyn on the establishment campaign to stop him becoming PM
The former Labour Party leader sits down with Declassified for his most candid interview yet – on the British media, UK military and intelligence services, Israel, Keir Starmer, Julian Assange and Saudi Arabia. Read Here
Finance
Piero Valmassoi: European Parliament S&D group meeting hears support for broadening platform work directive to include all workers managed by algorithms
Piero Valmassoi, an EU policy expert specialised in the platform economy, gig work and sustainable urban mobility, reports for the Gig Economy Project on an event organised by the Socialists & Democrats group in the […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Eurozone anti-fragmentation confusion – its really simple – the ECB has to continue to fund deficits or kaput!
The ECB knows what it has to do and continue to do – fund the fiscal deficits irrespective of what smokescreen it erects to call it something different. Read Here
Economics
Eurostat: Euro area international trade in goods deficit €32.4 bn
Imports increasing, exports decreasing. This is not how you export yourself out of a crisis Read Here
Austerity
Richard Murphy – Britain’s Summer of Discontent
The Tory government is intensifying its class war against the working people of Britain. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. Chartered accountant. Co-founder of the Green New […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – The future of work 2: working long and hard
This is the second in a series of posts on the future of work since the pandemic slump. Here is part 1 The future of work 1: remote working Michael Roberts is an Economist in the […]
Corruption
Mining(dot)com: Glencore unit pleads guilty to bribery in Africa
While people constantly complain about corruption in developing nations, they forget that this would not happen were it not for corporations of developing nations using bribes to achieve illicit profits and illegally destroy the environment. […]
Corruption
Aljazeera: US Supreme Court rejects Bayer’s bid to end Roundup lawsuits
The justices left in place a $25m judgement in favour of a man who says he developed cancer from using Roundup. Read Here