Climate Crisis
Katie Kedward: Forget greenflation, central banks need to tackle fossilflation
Monetary policy needs to evolve to meet rapid changes in the macroeconomic and ecological landscape Read Here Photo: Kenueone / Wikimedia
Inequality
Economics
Ann Pettifor – The UK’s new finance bill could cause another financial meltdown
In the midst of a cost of living crisis, finance should work for everyday citizens, not the City of London and huge corporations Ann Pettifor is a director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) Cross-posted […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – EU plans to import hydrogen from North Africa
The EU’s plan to drastically increase imports of renewable hydrogen from North Africa is not realistic from a cost or energy perspective, and instead diverts renewable electricity away from local needs and local climate targets. […]
Climate Crisis
Jeremy Corbyn: It’s Not Enough to Resist – We Have to Build, Too
There is a lot of corporate greed, corrupt politicians, and lying mainstream media between today and a true spring. Jeremy Corbyn is a member of the UK Parliament, former leader of the UK Labour Party […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – Why the Bank of England is taking us to hell in a handcart with its belief that we face the risk of stagflation
Appearing soon in the EU as well, so you might as well read this and know what lies in the future. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. […]
Economics
Frances Coppola – The Great Unemployment Fudge
The surprisingly low unemployment rate in the deep recession of 1945-6 in the US is explained by millions of women leaving the workforce to make way for men returning from the war. Frances Coppola is […]
Economics
Michael Hudson – Calling to Account the Hereditary Warrior Class
It’s often forgotten, or played down, that industrial capitalism was revolutionary Michael Hudson is the author of Killing the Host (published in e-format by CounterPunch Books and in print by Islet). His new book is J is For […]
Austerity
Sergio Cesaratto – The economic and social consequences of the war on Europe and Italy
Political realism offers useful keys to interpreting the international political economy, which has never been more endangered than today by the military escalation in Ukraine. The EU and Italy risk to be the pots and […]
Austerity
Richard Murphy – The UK is very likely in recession now, and the economy can only get worse, because that’s what the Bank of England wants and will deliver
The UK economy “unexpectdly” shrank in March. Richard Murphy has been predicting this for some time now, providing all the facts necessary to understand why: class war from the 1 percent against the working population. […]
Economics
Thomas Piketty: The return of the Popular Front
Let’s say it straight away: the agreement reached by the French left-wing parties under the label of the “New Popular Union” is excellent news for French and European democracy. Read Here © MathieuMD / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA […]