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.”
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
EU politics
Petr Janský: Effective tax rates for multinational companies in the EU
Richard Murphy: “Guess what? EU multinational corporations do not pay the tax that we expect of them” Read here
EU politics
red pepper: Local elections: 5 reasons to be cheerful
This is another article we are posting to help those of you outside Britain (and probably some inside) to understand what the results of the recent local elections tell us. Read here
Be the first to comment