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Sergi Basco – A new Euro ‘stablecoin’ could cause financial chaos

September 30, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Stablecoins are not stable if they are owned by inherently risk-taking, unstable commercial banks. Sergi Basco is an Economics professor at the University of Barcelona. Cross-posted from The Conversation On 25 September 2025, it was […]

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Bill McKibben – Our Financial System Is a Suicide Machine

February 7, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Some of the world’s biggest banks are now back-tracking on prior climate commitments – climate action isn’t just not moving forwards, it’s going backwards. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and […]

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AP News: Political neophyte Stefanos Kasselakis elected new leader of Greece’s main opposition Syriza party

September 25, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A centrist banker who has lived in the US for most of his life and has no political experience has taken over Syriza. You couldn’t make it up. Read the article HERE.

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Ann Pettifor: Inflation, Volcker and Déjà Vu

May 10, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The insanity of doing the same thing over and over again. From Ann Pettifor’s substack. Read the article HERE.

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Michael Roberts – Banking crisis: is it all over?

March 27, 2023 Ben Wray 0

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’ […]

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Michael Roberts: Bank busts and regulation

March 22, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Stocks have rebounded, but this banking crisis is only just getting started – and the prominent solutions on offer to solve it are all inadequate Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and […]

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Michael Roberts: Moral hazard or creative destruction?

March 15, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Letting big banks go to the wall is not on the agenda of states today, but saving them prevents the ‘creative destruction’ capitalism needs to renew itself. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of […]

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Michael Hudson: Why the bank crisis isn’t over

March 15, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The bind the system is in is this: it can’t reverse 13 years of Quantitative Easing without also reversing the asset-price inflation which resulted from it, which the financial system is built on. Michael Hudson […]

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Mark Thompson, Anna Cooban: Credit Suisse shares crash as Saudi investor rules out more funds

March 15, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Report in CNN on the chaos at Swiss bank Credit Suisse today. Is this the start of a new financial crisis? Read the article HERE.

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Branko Marcetic: Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Shows Little Has Changed for Big Banks Since 2008

March 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was caused by corruption, financial recklessness, and poor decision-making. With its bailout echoing 2008’s eager bailouts for the rich, it begs the question: How much longer will Americans […]

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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

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Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early […]

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

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Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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