Economics
Mark Blyth – The Crash 2008: Ten Years On
Parts 1 and 2 of four parts (The audio is awfuls). Let us hope parts 3 and 4, when they appear, have better audio:
Financial Institutions
Corruption
Lovin Malta: Why The Pilatus Bank Scandal Could Be Far More Dangerous To Malta Than First Meets The Eye
Malta is looking increasingly like a Mafia State, but so is much of Europe. Read here
Economics
New Economics Foundation – “Proptech” could exploit renters like Uber does workers
The financialisation of the rental sector left under the control of algorithms. This would be the neo-liberal reform of the housing problem that is plaguing much of Europe. It would surely porduce some attractive profits, […]
Finance
Reuters: KPMG hit by Hong Kong High Court in $400 million China Medical fraud
Odd, not much happens to the Big 4 accounting firms in Europe. Read here
EU politics
Mike Gold: Neo-Liberalism – Invisible Fascism?
The Italian fascist leader Mussolini claimed: “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” Thus this article makes a number of good points. Read here
Economics
Thomas Fazi – Public Debt In The Eurozone: A Political Problem
Public debt has been an important tool for furthering neo-liberal policies, especially in the EU. In the Great Financial Crisis not only did governments have to bail out private banks, but clean up the economic […]
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – Taxcast for March
In this month’s Taxcast: They say history is written by the victors. So how can we rethink the way we use words about tax havens that reflect the reality of what’s really happening? We talk […]
EU politics
Latvia to phase out shell company accounts in banking sector
IWe are curious how the EU reacts to this, as it violates one of the EU’s Four Freedoms: The free movement of capital. Read here
Finance
Karen Rowlingson – Poor people are penalised for borrowing to make ends meet – a new alliance gives them another way
Many people on low incomes are paying dearly for access to credit. shutterstock.com Karen Rowlingson, University of Birmingham Michael Sheen has just launched the End High Cost Credit Alliance. The actor has supported various charitable […]
Finance
Prem Sikka: Carillion collapse: here’s how much corporate undertakers could make from the liquidation
First you earn millions for poorly advising or auditing a company, then you make hundreds of millions after it has gone bankrupt. The pension fund was not covered and thousands are unemployed as a result. […]