Quantitative easing – not to save bankers and property barons – but for the insecure majority of people, creating jobs, raising incomes, and making their lives more bearable, should be part of a pan-European Green […]
Addressing a double whammy: in 2007, over a friendly drink, the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott, came up with a radical plan to combat the effects of the financial crisis and climate change. He called […]
Many estimates of the effects of Brexit overlook one fundamental element: the integration of our economies into global value chains. That will be negative for other European countries. For Britain, there is a possible way […]
The existing European Treaty is dangerously disfunctional. Better guidelines would enhance rather than constrain economic policy. Here are some, including making the European Central Bank the reserve buyer of national public bonds John Weeks is […]
Defending the euro actually showered profits on the European Central Bank – to the tune of 73 billion euros. But have the proceeds been fairly allocated? Stan Jourdan is head of Positive Money Europe Cross-posted […]
Richard Murphy of Tax Research UK proposes hitting those wanton frequent fliers – such as workaholic businesspersons and owners of second homes abroad – with a progressive Tax to Save the Environment (TASTE). Unpopular but […]
A Sinn Féin member of the European parliement, Matt Carthy, has exposed the fact that the European Central Bank made profits of 73 billion euros from the Securities Market Programme used to “aid” the peripheral […]
Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: privacy disappeared along with its competitors. Laws governing competition could change that. Dina Srinavasan is a former technology entrepreneur Cross-posted from The Institute for […]
A cruel irony of modern capitalism is that people in poverty are forced to pay more for many essential products and services. This is what is known as the ‘poverty premium’ – the extra cost […]
In the first of a two-part series, financial IT systems expert Peter Ryan writes for Common Weal on his latest policy paper, ‘Paying Our Way’. which advocates for the creation of a publicly owned payments […]
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