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Bill Mitchell: Central banks should just write off all their government debt holdings
Why and how the ECB should write off its debts and continue taking over member states ost-COVID investment costs. Read here
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Yanis Varoufakis – The EU’s multiple failures are due to its immunity to democracy – The New Statesman
From denial, to grudging acceptance, to substantial intervention, to debacle: that was the European Union’s trajectory once the storm that nearly consumed Wall Street in 2008 had crossed the Atlantic, starting the euro crisis. Twelve […]
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Interview with Sergio Cesaratto: Draghi and the Italian Melodrama
Neither the recovery fund nor Draghi will bring Italy out of its crisis. Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics and of Monetary and Fiscal Policies in the European Monetary Union, University of […]
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Bill Mitchell: A very dangerous variant of the global virus is spreading again after being subdued throughout 2020
There is a new variant of the global virus spreading again after being subdued throughout 2020. This is a very dangerous variant and if it takes hold will guarantee massive human suffering, and, a further, […]
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Michael Roberts – Ecuador: reversing the pandemic slump?
It never ceases to amaze us how academics and pundits cannot be effusive enough about radical changes in IMF policy – well at least the policy papers it publishes. Looking at Ecuador and Nigeria, in […]
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Sergio Cesaratto – The Next EU Degeneration
The Next Generation EU programme is full of pitfalls for many EU nations, as here in Italy. Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics and of Monetary and Fiscal Policies in the European […]
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Philippe Pochet – A Socio-Ecological Contract for a Post-Pandemic Europe
Philippe Pochet, general director of the European Trade Union Institute, about what the pandemic has meant for workers across Europe. The crisis may have opened a window of opportunity, but positive change cannot be taken […]
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Bill Mitchell – European Union – no democracy, no rule of law, no solidarity, no human rights, no economic miracle!
Bill Mitchell on Perry Anderson’s article “Ever Closer Union” Read here
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Bill Mitchell – Political Economy Thought and Praxis Post Pandemic
This is the first in a series of talks by Bill Mitchell presented by the Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy headed by Heikki Patomäki
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Bill Mitchell – IMF actions in Ecuador expose its venal motivations
The IMF were clearly miffed that their ‘authority’ had been challenged by ordinary citizen movements Read here