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Inga Rademacher – Finance and the far-right

July 9, 2025 Ben Wray 0

The far-right’s approach to finance seeks to channel financial rents back into national capital, but has little interest in tightening regulations or benefiting workers. Inga Rademacher is a lecturer in International Political Economy at City St. […]

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Mattias Schmelzer – Financial Capitalism Is More Dangerous Than Ever Today

June 30, 2025 Ben Wray 0

‘The crash of 2008 was supposed to augur the end of ultraspeculative financial capitalism. But financial actors have actually gone from strength to strength since then, and fictitious capital is a bigger menace to global […]

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Robert Hunziker – Climate Change Kills Capitalism

April 21, 2025 Ben Wray 0

What are financial assets worth in uninhabitable cities? Nothing. Robert Hunziker lives in Los Angeles and can be reached at rlhunziker@gmail.com. Cross-posted from Counterpunch Capitalism, like Antarctica and like the Amazon rainforest, is under threat of destruction by […]

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Branko Milanović – The stock market fetish

April 15, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Why should the left be concerned by the falling value of rich people’s stocks? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest  book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System […]

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Politico – EU readies counterstrike on Big Tech and US banks over Trump’s mega tariffs

April 1, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Let’s see whether when it comes down to it, Von Der Leyen is really prepared to take on Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Read the article HERE.

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Eric Tymoigne – How the Taxpayer Myth Gives Life to the Neoliberal Agenda

October 23, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The idea that the government is using “taxpayers’ money” when it spends limits spending options and marginalises sections of the population. Eric Tymoigne is an associate professor of economics at Lewis & Clark College and a […]

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Ann Pettifor – Time to tighten financial seatbelts?

June 3, 2024 Ben Wray 0

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 […]

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Irene Casado Sanchez, Jackie Botts – A program meant to help developing nations fight climate change is funneling billions of dollars back to rich countries

May 28, 2024 Ben Wray 0

‘Climate finance’ from the global north to the global south is just high-interest loans, sometimes tied to obligations to source materials for green projects from rich countries. In ‘Reuters’. Read the article HERE.

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Politico – EU agrees €3bn raid on Russian assets to buy weapons for Ukraine

May 8, 2024 Ben Wray 0

There seems to be little understanding among the EU political class about the signal this sends to governments and Central Banks across the world – that your money is not safe in Europe. Read the […]

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Michael Roberts – Further thoughts on the economics of imperialism

April 24, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Financial flows from global south to global north are a major source of imperialist power. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Back in 2021, […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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