Corruption
Tax Justice Network – October Podcast
In edition 70 of the Taxcast we look at the booming business of passports and residency for sale, and why it should worry us all. Also: even the IMF now advocates wealth taxes to combat […]
Tax
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
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
David Laws and Charles S. Adams – Is world-leading NHS healthcare an affordable proposition?
Two non-economists explain the creation of money and what becomes of it. It is a strightforward piece for those who get bogged down by technical economic terms. They also explain why a government debt is not […]
Finance
Richard Murphy – Thoughts on the IMF and World Bank
Murphy believes there could well have been a sea change at the IMF and World Bank. It is however one thing to produce analyses and papers making the right noises, and the IMF arguing that […]
Austerity
The Corruption of Capitalism – Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing
Book review by Mathew D. Rose In 2011 Guy Standing wrote a book titled “The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class”, which showed great prescience. By the second paragraph he had already predicted what would […]
Deregulation
Simon Wren-Lewis: How Neoliberals weaponise the concept of an ideal market
Using Colin Crouch’s new book “Can Neoliberalism Be Saved From Itself” as a starting point, Wren-Lewis re-examines his own definition of neo-liberalism. He comes to the conclusion that neo-liberalism is the misuse of the ideal […]