Donald Trump is doing everything he can think off to improve the US economy. Tariffs, cutting government spending, bringing manufacturing back home, accessing more resources and lowering the cost of energy. Will it work? And, if it does, Phil wonders whether there’s a ceiling to how far the US economy can grow. Or does it grow at the expense of other countries/ In other words, Phil wants Stebe Keen to explain what happens as the US, the world’s leading economy, tries to heighten its supremacy.
EU politics
Victoria Canning, Alaa Kassab, and Karam Yahya – From Syria to Scandinavia: Navigating the Refugee Reception Crisis
Since 2015, Europe’s so-called refugee crisis has been the centre of intense debate. But what if we began to look at it another way: as a refugee reception crisis? Rather than a crisis in the […]
Economics
Olivier de Schutter – Poverty in the EU
Another devastating report concerning inequality in the EU Poverty in the EU – The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, will present the preliminary findings of his two-month mission […]
Austerity
Elliot Kett: A New Film about Low Income Rural Britain
The Royal Society of Arts has put its finger on a misery too seldom recognised – the loneliness of the low-income farmer: farmers who can’t afford to eat the food they produce; families too poor […]
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