Climate Crisis
Katie Kedward: Forget greenflation, central banks need to tackle fossilflation
Monetary policy needs to evolve to meet rapid changes in the macroeconomic and ecological landscape Read Here Photo: Kenueone / Wikimedia
Financial Institutions
Economics
Emily Stewart: What is the point of crypto?
When it comes to crypto, all the questions sort of boil down to one: What, actually, is the point of it? Crypto is supposed to be special, i.e., not like other markets — at least […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor – The UK’s new finance bill could cause another financial meltdown
In the midst of a cost of living crisis, finance should work for everyday citizens, not the City of London and huge corporations Ann Pettifor is a director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) Cross-posted […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – Why the Bank of England is taking us to hell in a handcart with its belief that we face the risk of stagflation
Appearing soon in the EU as well, so you might as well read this and know what lies in the future. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. […]
Economics
Michael Hudson – Calling to Account the Hereditary Warrior Class
It’s often forgotten, or played down, that industrial capitalism was revolutionary 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 […]
Austerity
Richard Murphy – The UK is very likely in recession now, and the economy can only get worse, because that’s what the Bank of England wants and will deliver
The UK economy “unexpectdly” shrank in March. Richard Murphy has been predicting this for some time now, providing all the facts necessary to understand why: class war from the 1 percent against the working population. […]
Economics
William Davies, Sahil Jai Dutta, Nick Taylor, Martina Tazzioli – How COVID-19 revealed the politics of our economy
Drawing on a new book on the events of 2020-21, William Davies, Sahil Jai Dutta, Nick Taylor, and Martina Tazzioli offer a critical account of COVID-19 as a political-economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices. […]
Economics
The Counterbalance – Stakeholder capitalism’s blind spot: monopoly power
Environmental, Social, and Governance investors must identify the actual elephant in the room Counterbalance is a newsletter from a new anti-monopoly organisation, the Balanced Economy Project. Cross-posted from The Counterbalance To subscribe to The Counterbalance […]
Austerity
Michael Hudson – Ukraine 4 Steps On
After the people of Ukraine and Russia, the other losers of the Ukrainian war will be Europe. Michael Hudson is the author of Killing the Host (published in e-format by CounterPunch Books and in print by Islet). His […]
Economics
Robert Hockett: Make America Make Again
Three errors, all stemming from obsolete and discredited 1990s and early 2000s style thinking, have vitiated our national responses to inflation thus far. Counterpart errors, as it happens, account for our past 50 years’ economic, […]