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José Álvarez Díaz – When it comes to forest fires, austerity kills
2025 is the first year that a million hectares were burnt in forest fires across Europe, but as the scale of the problem grows the scale of public resources to tackle it does not. José […]
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Steve Keen – “The real problem isn’t deficits, It’s Neoliberalism“
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Richard Murphy – Why is it that the rich always seem to win?
Thomas Piketty called it the most important formula in economics: it’s R > G , which means that the rate of return on capital (R) is greater than the rate of growth in the economy […]
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Richard Murphy – The growth delusion
Martin Wolf of the FT said this week that only economic growth can save democracy. Yet his economics serves only the wealthy. When workers are sacrificed, rents soar, and insecurity spreads, as he demands so […]
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Marlon Ettinger – Emmanuel Macron Isn’t Really Halting Retirement Reform
‘France’s government has survived a confidence vote thanks to the Parti Socialiste’s abstention. While Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu promises to suspend unpopular changes to pensions, unions object that the retirement age hike has merely been […]
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Mathew D. Rose – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the German Economy
Hate is not a substitute for policy as the Germans should have learnt from their Nazi Third Reich. They obviously didn’t. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany […]
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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.
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William Thomson, Dirk Ehnts – Should an independent Scotland adopt the EU fiscal rules?
An independent Scotland would likely start life with a substantial public deficit so adopting the EU’s fiscal rules would mean austerity. William Thomson is a political economist and has worked for almost a decade in […]
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C.J. Polychroniou – Neoliberalism in France Receives a New Blow as Yet Another Government Falls
The French people don’t want more neoliberal remedies and there is no parliamentary majority for them, but Macron has nothing else to offer – something has to give. C.J. Polychroniou is a political economist/political scientist […]