Economics
Cédric Durand: Crisis in slow motion?
Durand writes in Sidecar about the meaning of the latest crisis of global finance. Read the article HERE.
Financial Institutions
Finance
Gerald Epstein – The Financial Crisis of 2023: Protecting Big Finance, Coming and Going
There needs to be a safe place for businesses to place their reserves and working capital Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and a founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Banking crisis: is it all over?
An overview of where we are up to with the banking crisis, which may have years still to run Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ […]
Economics
Mareike Beck – The Credit Suisse crisis and the contradictions of global finance: Three fallacies and a proposal
Incisive read explaining why Central Bank ‘solutions’ to the banking crisis aren’t actually fixing anything. Mareike Beck is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King’s College London. Cross-posted from the LSE EUROPP blog Banking is […]
Financial Institutions
David Shirreff – Fifteen wasted years of attempted bank reform
Regulators have squandered the fifteen years since the last financial crisis, and failed to bring real change to the banking system – as the past couple of weeks have shown. David Shirreff is a financial […]
Economics
MMT Podcast – Warren Mosler: Anatomy of a Bank Run
Patricia and Christian talk to MMT founder Warren Mosler about the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and more Listen HERE
Economics
Richard Murphy – Banking is at a massive crossroads. It is time that we talked about what comes next
It becomes increasingly obvious that the financial system is not under control and there is a lot of improvising going on – for better or for worse Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of […]
Austerity
Robert Reich: Bailing Out the Undeserving Rich – Again
Wealth creates power; power creates more wealth. Unattended, this can become a vicious cycle. Robert Reich, is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the […]
Economics
Dennis Kucinich & Michael Hudson Analyze the Banking Collapses
Overview: This was an impromptu conversation precipitated by former Congressman Dennis Kucinich to have a deep dive discussion with a former economic advisor, Michael Hudson, on the shockingly large recent bank collapses. As the former […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Former Bank of Japan governor challenges the current monetary policy consensus
We are witnessing what happens when Groupthink finally takes over an academic discipline and the policy making space. Blind, unidirectional policies, based on a failed framework, steadily undermining all the major goals – that is […]