Austerity
Clara Mattei – The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity & Paved the Way to Fascism
A talk based on Mattei’s recent book with the same title
Financial Institutions
Economics
Bill Mitchell – Bank of England announces end to propping up corporate greed – sort of!
The reality is that the pension funds need to be reined in and forced to withdraw from their ‘greed’ positions and to get back to ensuring they have sufficient assets and commensurate returns to cover […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – How the West poisoned its money
Capitalism conquered the world by commodifying almost everything that had a value but not a price, thus driving a sharp wedge between values and prices. It did the same to money. The exchange value of […]
Economics
Michael Hudson – Escaping the Western Rentier
The integration of Eurasia and disintergartion of Germany Michael Hudson is the author of Killing the Host (published in e-format by CounterPunch Books and in print by Islet). His new book is J is For Junk Economics. He can be […]
Economics
Jordi Schröder Bosch: How monetary policy fuels housing inequality
Central banks have stoked housing inequality, increasing the wealth of those with assets and depriving those without Cross-posted from Positive Money Europe Housing prices plunged during the global financial crisis. A new cycle of increasing […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Two diametrically-opposed approaches to dealing with inflation – stupidity versus the Japanese way
Bill analyses Japan’s inflation policy in coparison to those of Western nations. Read Here Bank of Japan Wikimedia Commons
Economics
Patrick Kaczmarczyk: Interest rate hikes are not the answer to Europe’s inflation problem
The history of ECB rate hikes is disastrous – there’s little reason to believe it will go any better this time Cross-posted from the LSE EUROPP blog INFLATION rates across the Eurozone are putting the […]
Corruption
We Have No Option But Hope: Noam Chomsky Talks With David Barsamian
Good insights into the current state of politics and democracy in the United States Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist. He is the laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona […]
Economics
Frances Coppola – What was the real reason for the Bank of England’s gilt market intervention?
An interesting insight into the question of why the Bank of England trashed its planned Quantitative Tightening and went back to Quantitative Easing. Who was it saving? Frances Coppola is the author of the Coppola Comment finance and […]
Economics
Philip Cunliffe – The Singaporeans’ Pyrrhic Victory
Britain’s mini-budget and the market turmoil Philip Cunliffe is Associate Professor of International Relations · UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR). He is also one of the founding editors of The Northern Star […]