Austerity
Ann Pettifor: Passing the Buck & Losing… by imposing the cost of the Green Deal on Europe’s insecure 99%
In this short interview segment I talk about two issues I’m really passionate about. Read HERE
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Finance
Ann Pettifor – Time to tighten financial seatbelts?
There’s reason to believe that the combination of high levels of public and private indebtedness combined with high interest rates could lead to financial trouble in the not-too-distant future. In Ann Pettifor’s Substack. Read the […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor: The Demise of US Power, De-Dollarisation & the BRICS
An Opportune Time For System Change? Read HERE
Economics
Ann Pettifor: How Money Flows Uphill
The Lucas Paradox, Anthony Minghella and the worst ever global debt crisis Read HERE
Economics
Ann Pettifor: The Sucker-Covered Tentacles of Private Equity … and Labour’s embrace of NHS privatisation
On Monday morning I woke to a furore caused by Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary’s suggestion that a Labour government would use “spare capacity in the private sector to cut the waiting lists.” And that he, […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor – What’s Art got to do with it?
The value of art, like other assets, is falling as inflation and interest rates rise. China in particular is in a debt-deflationary trap. In Ann Pettifor’s substack. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Ann Pettifor: Will the Global Economic System be Shaken by War, Rising Seas & Drought in 2024?
How to think and write about the global economy and financial architecture when the world’s ecosystem, and and geopolitical systems are broken and threaten sudden breakdown ? How to think and write about the economy […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor: On the bursting of bubbles
In the US, mortgage applications are now down 50% and at the lowest levels since 1994. Credit card defaults rates are higher than in 2008. Is the debt bubble about to burst? Read the article […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor: Why are rents rising at record rates?
On the perverse impact of debt deflation after a period of debt inflation Read HERE
Climate Crisis
Ann Pettifor – Nordhaus, “Refuseniks” “Frontierniks” and “Limitniks”
The ‘single number’ theory that helped nix climate change Read HERE