Climate Crisis
Financial Institutions
Climate Crisis
Paul David Richard Griffiths – Green lending: world’s biggest banks’ latest initiative at COP26 is a step backwards
There’s still a lot of fossil-fuel lending going on. Lucasz Z Paul David Richard Griffiths, EM Normandie – UGEI Over 450 of the world’s banks have committed to a new initiative at the COP26 UN […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Corporate welfare abounds
A couple of examples of why corporations can do what they want. Read here
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – COP26: the biggest finance greenwash event in history
Some of the worst financiers of the worst polluters helped write the script – and more, they will implement the decisions after the summit in Glasgow. Read here
Economics
Michael Hudson – We Make the Rules
Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book “Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire” and the financial motivations behind the US new cold war on China and Russia. Hudson has published a […]
Climate Crisis
Reclaim Finance: Infected by oil and gas giants: a short story of ECB’s covid asset purchases
The EU and its institutions, those paragons of virtue and goodness – always neo-liberal, always in the sevrive of corporations Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: In the battle between government and the hedge fund gamblers – the government has all the cards
Investors is code for speculative gamblers Read here
Aviation
DeSmog UK: UN-Approved ‘Green’ Investors Funding UK Airport Expansion Bids
Thirteen investors with stakes in expanding airports including Bristol and Heathrow are signed up to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment scheme, DeSmog can reveal. Read here London Gatwick Airport. Credit: Mike McBey (Flickr/CC BY […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: When ‘new’ is really old and doesn’t get us very far – latest BIS paper
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose Read here
Austerity
Richard Murphy – The dead hand of German monetary policy is now to be found at the Bank of England – and that’s a threat to us all
The push to renew austerity is being felt in much of Europe as the maintenance of the existing hierarchy of wealth within society is the priority Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of […]