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Austerity
Michele Barbero – France Is Deep in Debt but Failing to Tax the Superrich
Is a wealth tax the answer to Macron’s budget crisis? In ‘Jacobin’. Read the article HERE.
Tax
Economics
Prem Sikka: How successive British governments have created a new rentier economy
Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few. Read Article HERE Licensed under the Open Government Licence version 1.0
Economics
Michael Hudson, Ben Norton – America’s Free Lunch Economy
Economist Michael Hudson warns that the U.S. has morphed into a “free lunch economy,” where wealth flows not from production but from unearned rents and financial gains. Wall Street landlords like Blackstone buy up homes, […]
Economics
Aidan Regan – Winner Takes All: How the Top 1% of Firms Capture the Profits
Large corporations control much of the economy and politics in Western Europe, a power they abuse to increase their profits Aidan Regan is professor at University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations Cross-posted […]
Economics
Rafael Quintero – The G7’s Corporate Tax Escape Hatch: Fuelling Inequality and Killing Trust in Democracy
The G7’s Corporate Tax Escape Hatch: Fuelling Inequality and Killing Trust in Democracy Rafael Quintero Godínez is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at University College Dublin Cross-posted from Democracy Challenged Website In June 2025 the G7 quietly […]
Tax
Feodora Teti – Missing tariffs: How flawed data turn trade policy analysis into a Herculean task
Modelling any tariff-based intervention requires reliable data on what countries actually impose Feodora Teti is Assistant Professor (non-tenure) and Economist, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU); IES Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University Cross-posted from VoxEU Source: Hennepin County Library, US […]
Economics
Aidan Regan – Ireland’s Phantom Prosperity: The GDP Mirage and the Real Economy
This could only occur in the European Union Aidan Regan is professor at University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations Cross-posted from Democracy Challenged Ireland’s economic success story is, on the surface, dazzling. […]
Economics
Lynn Parramore – What the Economy Is Really For — And Why Tariffs Miss the Point
The money to support well-paid American jobs exists—it’s just being hoarded at the top. Economist William Lazonick argues that this is not just unfair; it’s a failure of the whole economic system. Lynn Parramore is […]
Climate Crisis
Jeffrey Sachs, Yanis Varoufakis – The Six Global Crises Confronting Humanity
22 April 2025 Sachs begins at round 6:30
Economics
Michael Hudson – Trump’s Inverted View of America’s Tariff History
A completely different take on Trump’s tariffs Michael Hudson is an American economist, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. He […]