Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – Why Green QE and MMT can co-exist
How Green QE, which is an idea that Richard co-created with Colin Hines a decade ago, can address some of the key problems within QE.
Inequality
Austerity
Michael Roberts – Biden’s Four Years
A good analysis of the challenges facing the Biden government. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ Blog It’s inauguration day. There is a new president […]
Economics
Dean Baker – Trump Crazy and Intellectual Crazy
At the most basic level, anyone in a policy position is almost always, by definition, on the winning side of the inequality gap. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and […]
Corruption
GPEnewsdocs – Dean Baker On Beating Inequality & COVID-19: Tackle Patent and Copyright Monopolies
Intellectual property like pharmaceutical patents is part of the story why so many people face a long wait for COVID-19 vaccines says Dean Baker discussing the high cost of policy choices that make the rich […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – There is a post-Covid society to shape, and it is not like the one that existed before we went into this
We all seem to have forgotten that before COVID we were, and still are, confronted with an existential climate crisis and an economic recession due to the failures of neo-liberalism (again). Richard Murphy is a […]
Finance
Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad – Why Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Their Countries From COVID-19 Must Be Investigated
This article is somewhat short sighted. Many governments put business blatantly before their citizens’ health, relaxing controls and creating the second COVID wave. Nations is Asia that did so well in the first wave have […]
Climate Crisis
Albena Azmanova – Precarity, populism, and prospects for a green democratic transformation
The proper Left alternative to the class struggle is subverting capitalism by mobilizing an ever wider and more diverse anti-capitalist front. Albena Azmanova is an associate professor of politics at the University of Kent’s Brussels […]
Economics
Valer Simion Cosma, Cornel Ban, Daniela Gabor – The Human Cost of Fresh Food: Romanian Workers and Germany’s Food Supply Chains
Fresh food supply chains in Europe’s transnational agribusinesses depend on cheap, non-unionised, and privately managed labour from low-wage eastern European countries. Read here
Economics
Albena Azmanova, Marshall Auerback – Lessons From the 6 January Insurrection
It will be seen if the ruling elite in the US is capable of responding to the reality in their nation. Otherwise this was a poorly executed first try. The second will be better organised. […]
Corruption
Jonathan Cook – Trump may be on trial, but the system that produced him will be acquitted
Jonathan Cook keeping his eye on the political ball. Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan Cook’s website To read the tweets in this article in […]