Economics
Dean Baker – Copyrights and Patents and IP, Oh My!
Dean Baker breaks down why our intellectual property system is in desperate need of reform. Watch Here
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Economics
Macro & Cheese – Robert Hockett: The Citizens’ Ledger
Robert Hockett joins Steve to talk about his latest book, The Citizens’ Ledger: Digitizing Our Money, Democratizing Our Future. The episode is right at home in our archive of interviews around the topics of fintech, […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen: Valuable new paper on climate catastrophes
Though the topic is heavy, it’s not a hard paper to read: it is an overview rather than an analytic or modeling paper. I highly recommend reading it. Though the topic is heavy, it’s not […]
Economics
Trading Economics: Eurozone manufacturing is contracting
The S&P Global Eurozone Manufacturing PMI contracted to 49.8 in July of 2022 from 52.1 in June, pointing to the slowest growth in factory activity since June of 2020. This is the recession we have […]
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DeStatis – Germany: Retail sales fall record 8.8% year on year
The German governent is failing egregiously on climate breakdown, did not prevent a war in Ukraine, and is now leading the nation into recession. The result of 18 years of Merkel’s “Mutti Politics” and a […]
Media
John Pilger – The US is “close to getting its hands on Julian Assange”
In an interview with Oscar Grenfell of the World Socialist Website, John Pilger explains the latest manoeuvres by the US and UK authorities to extradite Julian Assange, journalist and publisher, to the US where he […]
Economics
Hellenic Shipping News: German industry cuts production due to high energy prices
Germany faces the collapse of its economic model in the face of the Ukraine war and the new cold war with China Read Here
Economics
Donato di Carlo and Martin Hoepner – Germany is likely to shift toward wage restraint as inflation concerns mount
There is evidence that Germany is likely to shift toward wage restraint in the coming years. If other eurozone countries are unwilling – or unable – to mimic Germany’s wage moderation, distortion of real exchange […]
Climate Crisis
Noam Chomsky: Humanity Faces Two Existential Threats. One Is Nearly Ignored
People seem to have forgotten or are unaware of the threat of nuclear weapons Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist. He is the laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. […]
Climate Crisis
Jan Douwe van der Ploeg – Right wing farmers’ protests in the Netherlands
For those who are less than familiar with the intricacies of Dutch agriculture, the current wave of farmers’ protests (see DutchNews.nl: “Up to 40,000 farmers demonstrate against farm closures”, June 2022) will surely be puzzling. […]