Finance
Max Lawson: Is inequality going up or down?
Originally published on Tax Research UK Lawson looks at the development of inequality worldwide. Read here
Finance
EU politics
Olivier Tonneau and Sophie Rauszer – Plan B vs EU: Refoundation before dislocation
As a new financial crisis threatens the world, actors of the radical Left will convene at the fifth Plan B summit to save Europe from the neoliberal regime leading it to the abyss. Olivier Tonneau […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: British banks can’t be trusted – let’s nationalise them
Brexit is going in directions that no one even contemplated before the referendum – Britain rethinking its economic future. This is not the stuff of ultra-conservatives and racists, but a left that is discovering that […]
Finance
Richard Murphy – Money changes everything
We have posted a number of technical pieces refuting neo-classical economics. In the past two days we had two articles cross-posted from Progressive Pulse here and here which demonstrate this is practice. Both were in favour of […]
Finance
Joseph E. Stiglitz , Dean Baker , Arjun Jayadev: Intellectual Property for the Twenty-First-Century Economy
Intellectual property rights have become the biggest monopoly scam in the world. They have been supported by the World Trade Organisation, which in turn is dominated by those nations home to these monopolistic multinationals. The […]
Finance
Shaun Richards: The Novo Banco saga has been one of misrepresentation and woe
Ín 2014 Portugal’s Central Bank bailed out the Banco Espírito Santo, S.A with 4.4 Billion Euros. Banco Espírito Santo, was, as so often the case when banks are “saved”, split into a bad bank with all […]
Finance
Edward Smythe – The Bank of England’s depiction of inequality data is dangerously misleading
For some reason there still seems to be a discussion about if the wealthy have inordinately profitted from quantative easing (QE). Postive Money comes to the usual answer: unequivocally yes, Robin Hood in reverse as […]
Climate Crisis
Mat Hope – How 25 Metres of Country Road Became England’s Fracking Frontline
Mat Hope of DeSmog UK travels to Lancashire and reports about the protests against fracking there. By Mat Hope, éditor of DeSmog UK Cross-posted from DeSmog UK “There’s something happening,” Nick tells me. […]
Finance
Lars P. Syll – Microeconomic aggregation problems
Syll Looks at why orthodox economics, based on absurd assumptions, has completely lost its way and credibility. Lars P. Syll is an economist at the Faculty of Education and Society at Malmö, Sweden Cross-posted from Syll’s […]
EU politics
David Shirreff – Brexit damage limitation
There is so much white noise in the media concerning Brexit, almost all of it by people who have no idea of what is really going on behind the scenes. David Shirreff tries to make […]