Corruption
Reuters: EU plan on bank money laundering pushes back action to next year
Once again the EU political elite demostrates its fealty to banks and corporations and protects their criminal activities. Read here
Financial Institutions
Economics
Steve Keen – Tenth Anniversary Lehman Brothers at the European Parliament
Steve Keen explains how economist have still do not grasp what caused the Great Financial Crisis.
Corruption
Nick Shaxson – Is Germany’s finance minister the puppet of Big Finance?
Germany´s social democratic party, the SPD, is in rapid decline. This is the result of it selling laws and contracts to the highest bidder, while grinding its boot into the faces of its traditional working […]
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: Ten years after Lehmans, it’s as if we’ve learned nothing from the crash
Claims that the finance sector brings jobs and revenue were exposed as a sham – and the rest of us inherited a legacy of debt Read here
Economics
Taliking Politics: Adam Tooze – On his book Crashed!
BRAVE NEW EUROPE will be hosting Adam Tooze when he presents his book in Berlin on 28 (in English) and 29 (in German), Septmeber at Kopenhagener Str. 9, 10437 Berlin Listen here
Economics
Mark Blyth: How capitalism works – or doesn´t work
What a piece!
Economics
Michael Roberts: Lehmans, animal spirits and the failure of the progressives
An interesting take on the Great Financial Crisis and its consequences and meaning. Read here
Economics
Richard Murphy – Ten years on we need to be worried
15 September will be the tenth anniversary of the crash of Lehmann Brothers Bank in the US. Have we really learnt anything or changed the banking systen? Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International […]
Economics
Economist Mariana Mazzucato on the Downside of Shareholder Value
“We’ve confused rent with profits, value extraction with value creation.” Read here
Economics
Ashoka Mody – The IMF abetted the European Union’s subversion of Greek democracy
Who was accountable and who is accountable to the Greek people? European handling of the Greek crisis takes economic colonialism to a twenty-first-century high-water mark. Ashoka Mody is a visiting professor in international economic policy […]