Steve Keen and Michael Hudson have both been arguing for a debt jubilee for some time. Now, as COVID-19 hits the poorest hardest, and leaves those with money better off than before, is this the right time to write off debt? Can the economy recover without it? After all, its stagnated since the 2008 global financial crisis. If you were to have a debt jubilee, how would you do it. Steve and Michael have different ideas about how it should be implemented. They explain their thinking to Phil Dobbie on this week’s free edition of the Debunking Economics podcast.
EU politics
Pierre Manent on the European Union
“Europe as a secular religion” – after Macron’s declaration listen to this alternative account of the EU by Pierre Manent
Finance
Tech Won’t Save Us: What new EU rules might mean for gig workers
Paris Marx, host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, is joined by Ben Wray, Gig Economy Project co-ordinator, to discuss the fight to win a pro-worker Platform Work Directive in the European Union, Uber’s […]
Fake News
Ali Abunimah – Israel has lost
10 June 2024 On June 10, 2024, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Ali Abunimah, a Chicago-based, Palestinian-American journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada (EI). EI covers the Palestinian struggle from a Palestinian perspective. Abunimah and Lascaris […]
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