Economics
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Economics
Grace Blakeley: Why the world needs a new financial order
Capital mobility has sucked money out of the global South and into financial vortexes such as Wall Street and the City of London. Read here
Economics
Lars P. Syll – MMT perspectives on the euro
In her unsuccesful general election campaign of 2017 Theresa May promised “strong and stable” leadership. Look what Britain got. The same was promised with the euro. What the euro-nations got was German ideological obsession for […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Madness on both sides of the Atlantic
Europe´s future generations will pay for the German ideological obsession for rules over reality. Read here
Economics
Bloomberg: Italy Raises Deficit Target, Risking Fresh Conflict With The EU
Does this really surprise anyone? Read here
Economics
Adrian Bua and David Lawrence – How trade deals are undermining standards that protect us
EU trade deals are conducted in an undemocratic process, mainly with corporate lawyers and lobbyists. Their goal is to strengthen trans-national corporations. It is always interesting to note how progressive NGOs deny that it was […]
Economics
Richard Wolff – What MMT has taught us
Now that Modern Monetary Theory has finally left the defamatroy voodoo and charlatan economics corner there is finally a constructive critical discussion concerning its approach.
Economics
Bill Mitchell: IMF changes tune on industry policy – shamelessly – Part 2
In Part 1, I introduced the discussion about the use of industry policies in the Keynesian period after World War 2. Most nations adopted a mixed planning-market based system for allocating productive resources and the […]
Finance
Nick Shaxson – Over a third of world trade happens inside multinational corporations
Over a third of world trade happens inside multinational corporations. That’s $7-9 trillion. Just think of all those profit-shifting possibilities Nick Shaxson is an Investigative Journalist and author of “Treasure Islands”. His new book, The […]
Economics
Robert Reich – A Federal Jobs Guarantee
What would a Jobs Guarantee Programme achieve. Robert Reich explains the advantages