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Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson – What Causes Inflation?

January 29, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

What is inflation? What causes it? What are the problems in how the Federal Reserve and other central banks respond to it? Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic […]

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Inequality

Robin McAlpine – Can poverty escape the B-list?

January 27, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Robin McAlpine once again asking the right question and giving the right answer Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish think-and-do tank Common Weal Cross-posted from Common Weal There is something I’m finding increasingly unsettling […]

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Sam Pizzigati: A down year for our deepest pockets?

January 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The billionaire class lost wealth in 2022 but it didn’t put a dent in their luxury spending. More money for billionaires doesn’t buy them more things, it buys them more political power. Sam Pizzigati writes on […]

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Branko Milanović – Recent trends in global income distribution and their political implications

January 23, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Starts at Minute 1 The talk discussed the evolution in global inequality over the past thirty years. It will focus on the most recent 2008-2018 estimates of global income distribution and will draw political implications […]

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Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Opportunity Cost and MMT

January 22, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Conventional economics is built around the idea of opportunity cost. If there is a limited resource a decision has to be made about how best to use it. How is that principle applied when you […]

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Macro & Cheese – Michael Hudson: The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism, or Socialism

January 22, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Michael talks about the current global political economy, oil prices, debt jubilees, monetary hegemony, and the US political parties. When asked for solutions, his answers might be troubling to some. It’s worth hearing him out.  Listen […]

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Michael Hudson, Radhika Desai – Introducing the Geopolitical Economy Hour

January 19, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

In a new podcast, every fortnight economies Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson will discuss major developments in the fast-changing world of geopolitical economy. In this first podcast, they introduce the themes they will discuss and […]

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Sam Pizzigati – Tax the Wealthy At Least 75%, Says Oxfam. Do It Now

January 19, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

The billionaires and their invited guests at Davos will pay this international call no mind, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. After all, we’ve done it before. Sam Pizzigati writes on inequality for […]

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Martha Dillon – We need more than new homes: New census data confirms UK building stock is growing faster than population

January 18, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The widespread notion that there is simply not enough houses being built is ignorant of the facts. You can’t tackle the housing crisis without tackling the liberalisation of the housing market. Cross-posted from Positive Money […]

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Michael Roberts – Davos 23: going pear-shaped

January 17, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

After receiving trillions from governments in the recent economic crises, corporations feel it would be better if they ran the world. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from […]

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When McKinsey comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanovitch and Michael Forsythe

January 8, 2023 0

Book Review by Roger Steer In January 2021 Brave New Europe published “The Americanisation of European Healthcare” which was my attempt to describe the forces at work to change the way healthcare is delivered in […]

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Do You Want to Know the Truth? by Rupert Read

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Book Review by Alison Teal Honesty is the key word for Rupert Read’s new book Do You Want to Know the Truth? Rarely is this book what one would consider ‘light’ reading. Collecting some of […]

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