Finance
telesur: Neoliberal Argentina Bans NGOs From WTO Summit in Last-Minute ‘Unprecedented’ Move
If you can’t beat them (not in the literal sense as was the case at the G-20 in Germany recently), then forbid them Read here
Financial Institutions
EU politics
Norbert Häring – The ECB resorts to omissions, half-truths and misrepresentations to defend Draghi’s G30-membership
What is ECB President Mario Draghi doing in the Group of Thirty (G 30), an international body of leading financiers and academics? The ECB is not terribly cooperative in answering this question. Norbert Häring is […]
Finance
Notayesmanseconomics’s Blog: The Italian banks and how they have contributed to a possible end to deposit protection
This is an interesting blog concerning the state of Italian banks and how their crisis could change EU banking. Read here
Economics
Simon Wren-Lewis: What really caused the financial crisis
Wren-Lewis discusses Tam Bayoumi’s recent book “Unfinished Business” concerning the Great Financial Crisis: “What this analysis by Tam Bayoumi convincingly shows is that finance always has to be carefully regulated, and failures in regulation can […]
Finance
Heiner Flassbeck: What Will Cutting ‘Quantitative Easing’ Mean for Europe?
In The Real News Network The European Central Bank (ECB) announced that it will reduce its cash injection program, known as quantitative easing, by half. Economist Heiner Flassbeck discusses the consequences this will have for […]
Finance
Ann Pettifor: Those who helped break the economy cannot fix it
Pettifor doubts that the Bank of England had any good reasons to increase interest rates – other than to serve the financial interests in the City of London. Ann Pettifor is an Economist, director of […]
Finance
Larry Elliot: Missing pay rises: the ever deepening economics mystery
Well explained, simple to understand. Elliot looks at the consequences of the Phillips Curve not functioning. This would mean central banks have no idea what are the consequences when increasing their interest rates. Read here […]
Economics
The Divide – A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel
Book review by Mathew D. Rose The subtitle of Jason Hickel’s book “The Divide” is something of an understatement. The book is neither brief, nor is it a guide. Instead Hickel has written a brilliant […]
EU politics
Positive Money – The Bank of England’s boost to wealth inequality is all but impossible to reverse
The Bank of England’s quantative easing (QE) has resulted in a radical increase in inequality in the United Kingdom. Positive Money calls for a change in policy – QE for People – to roll back […]
Finance
Andy Storey – The European Central Bank Isn’t Going to Save Us
The ECB is not going to help the Irish people. “Where the ECB does lavish largesse, it tends to be to the benefit of the corporate sector, including already loaded Irish companies like Ryanair, which […]