Economics
Michael Roberts – Crashed: more the how, than the why
Michael Roberts´on Adam Toote´s book Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Read here
Financial Institutions
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: Greece was never bailed out – it remains a debtor’s prison and the EU won’t let go of the keys
It is odd that the EU still is trying to maintain its lie of “We saved Greece”. How can the EU lead Europe when it has lost all moral authority? Read here
EU politics
The Irish Times: Ireland – Massive increase in reports of money laundering
Banks and financial institutions reported over 24,000 suspect transactions in 2017 Read here
Economics
Norbert Häring – Brave New Money: PayPal, WeChat, Amazon Go – A Totalitarian World Currency in the Making Part 2
My new book in German with the translated title: “Brave New Money: PayPal, WeChat, Amazon Go – A Totalitarian World Currency in the Making” has just been published by Campus. I have translated the “Introduction […]
Finance
Norbert Häring – Brave New Money: PayPal, WeChat, Amazon Go – A Totalitarian World Currency in the Making
My new book in German with the translated title: “Brave New Money: PayPal, WeChat, Amazon Go – A Totalitarian World Currency in the Making” has just been published by Campus. I have translated the “Introduction […]
Austerity
Steve Keen – “Greece exits bailout program but economic hardships persist”
After eight grueling years of austerity, Greece today emerged from its bailout program. The $330 billion in loans from the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund saved the country from […]
EU politics
Richard Murphy – We may be near ‘Peak stuff’ and that will create a crisis
Financial crises are often the product of private debt being too high. According to Richard Murphy this situation is rapidly approaching in Britain. The question is what to do when the crisis arrives? Richard Murphy […]
Corruption
The Political Economy of Italy’s Decline by Andrea Lorenzo Capussela
Book review by Mathew D. Rose Andrea Capussela has a tale to tell – and he does it well. This book could not have appeared at a more opportune moment as it seeks to illuminate […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Every so often humanity manages genuinely to surprise itself. Events to which we had previously assigned zero probability push us into what the ancient Greeks referred to as aporia: a state of intense bafflement urgently […]
EU politics
Ashoka Mody: Italy Needs to Wake Up and Fix Its Banks
The euro area’s most vulnerable economy is heading into a storm. Read here