EU politics
Ashoka Mody: Italy Needs to Wake Up and Fix Its Banks
The euro area’s most vulnerable economy is heading into a storm. Read here
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Economics
Matthew Yglesias: Elizabeth Warren has a plan to save capitalism
Elizabeth Warren is unveiling a bill to make corporate governance great again. Read here
EU politics
Lorenzo Marsili and Ken Loach: ‘If We Don’t Understand Class Struggle, We Don’t Understand Anything’
Filmmaker Ken Loach on populism, the gig economy, and the importance of transnational solidarity in his movies and beyond. Read here
Austerity
Ryan Cooper: The biggest policy mistake of the last decade
The culprits of the biggest policy mistake of the last decade..are named. Read here
Economics
Claire Connelly: What are taxes actually for?
A simple, straighforward piece that does away with the myth that governments tax to spend. Read here
Economics
Richard Murphy: CEOs are rigging markets to increase their pay and then sponsor free market mythology to justify their abuse
Rent is a redistribution of resources from those without power to those with it. Read here
EU politics
Prem Sikka: When will the bankers who’ve rigged our economy be held to account?
Regulators are incapable of protecting the public from economic crime, writes accounting expert Prem Sikka. Read here
Economics
Ann Pettifor: Why the Federal Reserve is as much to blame for Turkey’s economic crisis as Donald Trump
It is necessary to point to the Fed’s actions to understand tremors in world markets, but central bankers should never have been held solely responsible for the restoration of macroeconomic stability Read here
Corruption
Alexander Clapp: A Greek Bearing Gifts
Oligarch watch. Fascinating article. We need to start thinking about the Transnational Network of Plunder (TNP) as the unit of analysis. Read here
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: These councils smashed themselves to bits. Who will pick up the pieces?
Experts saw it coming – it was inevitable: The neo-liberal discourse that private is better. It is pernicious. The question is when the British will stop voting for Tory ideology and hoping a fairytale will […]