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.”
EU politics
Prem Sikka: Too many bean-counters: How an ‘accounting curse’ is hurting the UK economy
Another day and another accounting episode hits the headlines. No, it is not Carillion, BHS, Conviviality, Rolls Royce, Serco, SIG or Tesco. This week it is BT, which has admitted that its accounting for pensions contained […]
Climate Crisis
Carbon Majors: 36 companies (inc state-owned) are responsible for over half of the world’s atmosphere-heating fossil fuel pollution
Carbon Majors traces 33.9 GtCO2e of emissions to the 169 active entities in the database in 2023, a 0.7% increase from 2022. The CO2 emissions in the database accounted for 78.4% of global fossil fuel […]
Deregulation
Michael Roberts: Carillion and the ‘dead end’ of privatisation
We did not want to post any articles concerning Carillion. It was a specifically British event. The collapse of Carillion, one of the UK’s largest leading construction and service companies, has resulted in important analyses […]
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