Economics
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Economics
eu observer: ECB rate hikes see corporate loans drop to record low
The ECB and the EU, both being pressured by Germany demands for austerity, are pushing the EU into a recession Read HERE Photo: ECB/Flickr
Austerity
Michael Hudson – The Looming War Against China
Economic Logic has been Replaced by National Security Overrides Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Spain: another swing to the right in Europe?
A right-wing government would have made things worse for Spanish working people. They almost came into office because of the failure of the social democratic government before Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of […]
Economics
Macro & Cheese – Michael Hudson: Is the US a Failed State?
Is the US a failed state? Well, with a paralyzed economy, debt deflation, and a ruling elite waging class warfare on labor, what else should we call it? [00:01:43] Steven Grumbine: All right. This is […]
Financial Institutions
Jon Danielsson – When artificial intelligence becomes a central banker
Letting AI run bits of central banking raises difficult questions around which tasks it can be trusted with. Jon Danielsson is Director, Systemic Risk Centre, London School Of Economics Cross-posted from VoxEU Wikimedia Commons Artificial intelligence […]
Economics
Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, Ann Pettifor – Financial Colonialism or National Sovereignty
Economic Interference in the Global South Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of […]
Corruption
Michael Oswald – Behind Closed Doors
Corruption and financial secrecy have far-reaching implications for both developed and developing countries. This documentary sheds light on the interplay between corrupt elites, offshore havens, and the challenges faced in combating illicit financial flows. It […]
Finance
Richard Murphy – The era of independent central banks should be over
‘Independent’ central banks are really a license to run monetary policy in the interests of the wealthy without any democratic accountability. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. Chartered […]
Economics
Michael Hudson – America has Just Destroyed a Great Empire
We are seeing not the End of History but a fresh alternative to U.S.-centered neoliberal finance capitalism and its junk economics of privatization, class war against labor. Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for […]