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Michael Roberts: Monetary tightening, inflation and bank failures

March 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A wider lens on the dynamics driving the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog LAST week, US Fed Chair Jay […]

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Serena Di Luccio – Windfall profits for banks, crisis for people: The money system is unfair and needs to be reformed

March 8, 2023 Ben Wray 0

As a consequence of the European Central Bank (ECB) raising its interest rates, banks in the euro area will earn €70 billion in unearned windfall profits. Cross-posted from Positive Money Europe There is a huge […]

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Nicole Omotoye: How Netflix hit ‘Bank of Dave’ shows banks could work for people and community, not profit

February 27, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A new Netflix series dramatises the story of Dave Fishwick, who’s ambition is to take on the City of London and open the first local bank in 150 years. Nicole Omotoye works as a Campaigner […]

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Uuriintuya Batsaikhan and Jan Musschoot – The gifts that keep on giving: Banks’ windfall profits as a consequence of ECB rate hikes

December 16, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Banks are making massive profits on European Central Bank interest rate rises, with German and French banks making the most Cross-posted from Positive Money Europe THE ECB is expected to pay around €40 billion in […]

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Richard Murphy: Spending cuts will be £27 billion next year – which is the additional unnecessary sum the government is planning to pay in interest to the UK’s banks next year

November 18, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Interest rates were attached to Quantitative Easing, so that banks get interest on money created by the BoE, in which they have done nothing to earn. Now interest rates are rising, and those banks are […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

January 15, 2026 0

Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

December 28, 2025 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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