Finance
Hannah Brenton: Silence speaks volumes as Switzerland still reels from bank meltdown
In Switzerland, no one wants to talk about one of their biggest banks just collapsed. In Politico. Read the article HERE.
Banking crisis
Economics
Ann Pettifor: Inflation, Volcker and Déjà Vu
The insanity of doing the same thing over and over again. From Ann Pettifor’s substack. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Jordi Schröder Bosch – Walking the tight-rope: the trade-offs between financial and price stability
European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde’s claim that there is no trade-off between price stability and financial stability is evidently untrue and may come back to haunt her. Jordi Schröder Bosch is a researcher at […]
Climate Crisis
Colin Hines: Bail out society and the planet, not just the banks
If the trillions spent on QE so far had gone towards the energy transition, we would be on our way to a zero-carbon world Colin Hines is a member of the Green New Deal Group. […]
Economics
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie: QE and the bond bubble
Silicon Valley Bank collapsed last month because there was a run on the bank and they didn’t have the assets to cover their customers deposits. They were trading insolvent, in other words, even though they […]
Economics
Cédric Durand: Crisis in slow motion?
Durand writes in Sidecar about the meaning of the latest crisis of global finance. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Michael Roberts – Banking crisis: is it all over?
An overview of where we are up to with the banking crisis, which may have years still to run Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ […]
Economics
Mareike Beck – The Credit Suisse crisis and the contradictions of global finance: Three fallacies and a proposal
Incisive read explaining why Central Bank ‘solutions’ to the banking crisis aren’t actually fixing anything. Mareike Beck is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King’s College London. Cross-posted from the LSE EUROPP blog Banking is […]