After ten years of wrongheaded and brutal spending cuts, Keynes’s warning that bad economics produces political extremism is more important than ever.
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EU politics
Ulrike Guérot, Thomas Piketty, et al.: Democratising Europe begins with ECB nominations
Who runs Europe? The people? Not on your life. As a raft of renowned experts write, the new members of the European Central Bank, in the meantime a powerful institution, will be selected in secret […]
Austerity
Noam Chomsky: The Resurgence of Political Authoritarianism
Noam Chomsky on a number of topics concerning the inexorable rise of authoritarianism worldwide. Read here
EU politics
The Local: Germany made billions on Greece’s debt crisis, Berlin confirms
This is only the tip of the iceberg. The low value of the Euro due to weak economies in the euro-group has been vital for Germany’s trade surplus, not to mention the very low interest […]
How austerity broke Britain – and how we can recover is an excellent article.
We must act on it