Economics
Steve Keen, Michael Hudson – Permanent Inequality
How has the Covid crisis increased inequality?
Economics
Economics
Ms Merkel’s Breathtaking Economic V-Recovery – Corona crisis has hit the German restaurant industry hard: turnover in March to August 2020 was down 40.5% from the same period a year earlier
The number of persons employed dropped by 17.6% in March to August 2020 from the same period a year earlier Bars and pubs are substantially affected: turnover decreased by 45.5% over the same period, the […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell – US claimants recovery stalls
The US Department of Labor’s weekly data releases are indicating that as the virus escalates, seemingly out of control, the labour market recovery has all but stalled and a reasonable prediction would be that it […]
Economics
Thomas Piketty: What to do with Covid debt?
How are States going to deal with the accumulation of public debt generated by the Covid crisis? For many, the answer is clear: central banks will take on their balance sheets a growing share of […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – Why can’t we have Hypothecated Savings, Provided by the Government?
How many people have we seen lose their money with speculative investments that do not serve society. Richard Murphy offers an alternative. And do not be intimidated by the term “Hypothecated”. Richard Murphy is a […]
Climate Crisis
Jonathan Cook – Capitalism is Double-Billing Us: We Pay from our Wallets only for our Future to be Stolen from Us
Ecocide and corporations are two sides of the same coin Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan’s website To read the tweets in this article in […]
Corruption
Nick Shaxson – Tax Havens Harm our Well-Being and Security
You may be tired of reading about tax havens, but great progress is being made in understanding their structures. Get caught up with Nick Shaxson. Nick Shaxson is an Investigative Journalist on the staff of […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – COVID and the Trade-Off
It is still early days, but Michael Roberts examines what can be concluded about the pandemic in the past six months. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger […]
Economics
Juan Laborda – How to Manage the Financial Crisis
Contrary to what some may claim, it is the deterioration of public health, as a result of their negligence, that ended up sinking the Spanish economy Juan Laborda teaches Financial Economics at the University of […]
Economics
Mitchell A. Orenstein, Bojan Bugarič – How populism emerged from the shadow of neoliberalism in Central and Eastern Europe
Hungary and Poland have pursued a notably ‘populist’ approach to the economy in recent years, which has begun to spread to other countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Mitchell A. Orenstein and Bojan Bugarič argue […]