Blogger The General Theorist wonders whether Christine Lagarde’s patchy performance as managing director of the IMF qualifies her for the trickier role of president of the European Central Bank. “The assumption that Lagarde is a like-for-like replacement of Mario Draghi is a huge misreading of her track-record.”
Media
Tom Mills: Britain – Even centrists are losing faith in the BBC
This is problem with what used to called “balanced journalism”: serve elite interests and maintain public trust. As the elite moves towards the neo-liberal creed of winner take all, this practice has been jettisoned. Mill has […]
Finance
Frances Coppola: Apple Isn’t Disrupting Banks, It Is Helping Them
The card that is “created by Apple, not a bank” is actually issued by – a bank. Read here
EU politics
Adam Tooze: Italy’s elite chooses a strategy of tension
The EU political elite appears to have lost contact with reality, to such an extent that it seems to have gone into self-destruct mode. This has nothing more to do with politics and everything to […]
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