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Norbert Häring: The Curious Silence of the British Media Regarding Mark Carney and the Secretive G30

January 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Mario Draghi has been forced to leave the opaque G30. If the head of the ECB should not be there, why is the head of the Bank of England still a member? Read here  

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Positive Money – CENTRAL BANKS NEED TO GO GREENER, FASTER

January 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Climate change is a major finacial risk. Central banks acknowledge that. Why are they not doing anything about it?  By Rob Macquarie, who leads Positive Money’s research on climate policy and the monetary system. Cross-posted […]

Economics

Iain Macwhirter: Carillion and the RBS ‘hang themselves’ memo proves it’s all over for neoliberalism

January 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

“This era of capitalism is already a dead parrot.” Thus ends the article. All before it is just as straightforward – and that in a newspaper that is not lefitst! Read here  

Austerity

Jihen Chandoul: The IMF has choked Tunisia. No wonder the people are protesting

January 21, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The IMF claims to have learnt from its mistakes and writes lovely papers criticising its own policies of the past. Still they have not swerved an inch from their traditional policy of brutal austerity. Read […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – ECB President Draghi’s membership of mega-bankers’ club is “maladministration”

January 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

There was absolutely no reason for Mario Draghi to be there – and many against his participation. The decision of the European Ombudsman to ask the European Central Bank President to end his membership of […]

Economics

Lino Zeddies: Money creation and inequality – an underexposed topic

January 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Wrong!  It is not only governments that create money. Financial institutions such as banks do too. Who controls the economy and how? Here some answers to the questions. Lino Zeddies is an economist Cross-posted from […]

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EU politics

arte: HSBC – Gangsters of Finance

January 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Since the 2008 crisis, HSBC has been involved in countless scandals: Money laundering for drug cartels, corruption, tax fraud… And yet the international bank escapes justice with insignificant fines. Why are they “too big to […]

Finance

Rutger Bregman: Society’s biggest freeloaders are at the top

December 20, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This piece is about one of the biggest taboos of our times: We are living in an inverse welfare state. The people getting the biggest handouts are not down around the bottom, but at the […]

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Finance

NICK DEARDEN: The WTO matters more than ever – here’s what you need to know about its summit

December 10, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Is a neoliberal dream being reborn in Latin America? It’s not got off to the best of starts… Nick Dearden is director of Global Justice Now. Cross-posted from openDemocracyUK     ‘Latin America returns to the […]

Finance

telesur: Neoliberal Argentina Bans NGOs From WTO Summit in Last-Minute ‘Unprecedented’ Move

December 5, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

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  

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

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Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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