Economics
Bill Mitchell: The ‘truth sandwich’ and the impacts of neoliberalism
In this blog Bill Mitchell addresses two topics: argumentation and socialmobility/inequality. As always eith Mitchell, a worthwhile read. Read here
Bill Mitchell
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: European-wide unemployment insurance proposals – more bunk!
As European neo-liberal enforcers go into meltdown (political zombies like Renzi and Rajoy are gone, Merkel and May will follow) the European political class has a new strategy: ever bigger lies. In this blog Bill Mitchell […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: German press and its politicians lose the plot – Europhiles be warned
You should note that the claim in Der Speigel “Germans would lose all the rescue money they have given to Italy” isutterly false. Italy was not part of any “rescue package”. Der Spiegel is the […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: ECB continues to play a political role making a mockery of its ‘independence’
Bill Mitchell debunks the myth of the technocratic and independent role of the Europen Central Bank. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Oh Scotland, don’t you dare! – Part 2
This is the second part of Bill Mitchell’s article concerning the Scottish Growth Commission Report (Part 1 here) – what Scotland’s financial and economic policy should be after independence. It is neo-liberal to the core, […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Oh Scotland, don’t you dare!
Because the Scottish natioanl Party is for independence from Britain, the Scots think the SNP is a letist party. Odd, the party has never passed leftist policy into law, although they control the Scottish parliament. […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: The assault on democracy in Italy
With Bill Mitchell’s blog we continue our series of analyses concerning the recent events in Italy. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: European Central Bank research provides a withering critique of mainstream macroeconomics
Although Bill Mitchell warns that “this blog post considers some very technical material” he does an excellent job of explaining what it all means. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Education – a faux crisis, an erroneous ‘solution’ and capital wins again
Beginning with education, this morphs into an article about the Big Four Accountancies, especially Ernst & Young. As always with Mitchell, well worth reading. Read here
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Forget European reform – the Germans have anyway
Regularly the corporate press and its pundits declare that the EU is about to change for the better. The latest was that Macron was going to bring reform. What happened? Then it was the German […]