Finance
Jesse Felder: Don’t Overlook The Vampire Squid’s Role In The Recent Tesla Call Buying Frenzy
Goldman Sachs. Says it all. Read here
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EU politics
Euro Intelligence: The EU’s new clothes – immigration edition
It looks like a window-dressing narrative has been found while the foundations are still rotting away. Read here
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: Ex German Finance minister deliberately misses the point about the ECB
Once again the Germans are trying to assert their authority over the ECB and bully it into constraining the only policy intervention that is saving the eurosystem from collapse, by way of insolvency of several […]
Climate Crisis
Reuters: Germany plans to relieve some companies from new CO2 levy
This is why Germany wanted von der Leyen as president of the European Commission so that she can impose Germany’s Brown Deal upon the EU, of course calling it a Green Deal. Read here
Economics
DeStatis – Germany: Decline in real earnings greater than in Great Financial Crisis
If this is a V-Recovery, it is obviously for the 1% Read here
Climate Crisis
Climate Home News: EU Commission defends 2030 climate target against ‘accounting trick’ critique
The EU’s Climate Plan and Green Deal: the political equivalent of Wirecard Read here
Corruption
OCCRP European Regulators Failed to Spot Suspicious Money Flooding Through Latvia’s Banks
European regulators gave the green light for international banks to handle billions of dollars that flowed from the former Soviet Union through Latvia’s banking sector, even as thousands of these transactions were being red-flagged to […]
EU politics
Corporate Europe Observatory: Power and profit during a pandemic
In a pandemic the pharmaceutical industry is hailed as a saviour; yet the industry is using the crisis to lock in its problematic, profit-maximising model. Pushing for public money with no-strings-attached, and stronger monopoly patent […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: There is no inevitable trade-off between saving the lives of the aged and economic prosperity
The more sophisticated critics hide behind sophistry and false premises to push the argument that lockdowns are worse than spirally death rates. Read here Source: Wikimedia Commons
Economics
Medium: The economics of land and what that means for Generation Rent
A recent study of 14 advanced economies found that 81% of the rise in house prices is attributable to land, not the dwellings that rest on it. Read here