Economics
Nicholas Shaxson – How to Crack Down on Tax Havens: Start With the Banks
Fear not, you can read one article for free and this is the one. Read here
Economics
Economics
The Guardian: From Seattle to Luxembourg: how tax schemes shaped Amazon
The Guardian is doing a series concerning Amazon. This is just one article. Read here
Austerity
Larry Elliot: Some praise our gig economy flexibility. I call it exploitation
While Silicon Valley cannot praise the gig economy enough as a great opportunity, they forget to add that it is a great opportunity for them to earn money, not the workers. Read here
Austerity
Steve Schifferes – How the media made austerity worse
John Gomez/Shutterstock.com Steve Schifferes, City, University of London The UK financial press was much slower to criticise the austerity policies of the government than in other parts of Europe. This meant that it became accepted […]
Economics
Larry Elliot: Could Donald Trump’s lone ranger approach provide the silver bullet?
This could become truly embarrassing. First Donald Trump sank TTIP, saving Europeans from their own corrupt political elite. Now Larry Elliot raises the question if the world trade system has been so manipulated in the […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Forget European reform – the Germans have anyway
Regularly the corporate press and its pundits declare that the EU is about to change for the better. The latest was that Macron was going to bring reform. What happened? Then it was the German […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor – The Bank of England should not raise rates: here’s why
Central Banks have discovered that they have little idea of what is occuring in the economies they are supposed to be guiding. Using economic models that do not function makes it almost impossible to guride […]
Austerity
Chantal Mouffe: “Corbyn represents the implementation of a left populist strategy”
In this article, Chantal Mouffe, philosopher, professor at the University of Westminster and theoretician of left-wing populism, proffers an analysis of the strategy of Jeremy Corbyn, a strategy which seeks to transform the internal dynamics […]
Austerity
Welfare Weekly : More than a third of low-income working parents forced to skip meals
“Let them eat twitter”. This is the Europe and Brtain created by the EU elite and Tories. This has nothing to do with Brexit or Remain, this is neo-liberalism. Read here
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out
Yanis Varoufakis turns to the Communist Manifesto and finds turth, solace, and inspiration. Highly recommended. Read here