Thierry Breton’s decision to take on a lucrative advisory role at Bank of America underscores the complicity of EU officials in fostering the very dependencies they publicly decry
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: Ten Years After Lehman’s Collapse: What caused the Crash of 2008 is now shaping our post-modern 1930s
“In the autumn of 2008 events unfolded in Wall Street that the crushing majority of people around the world had been led to believe could never occur. It was the financial equivalent of watching the […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – The ‘disciplining role of markets’ should be replaced by the disciplining role of democracy
Capital through its lobbying power has also meant that there is now democratic deficits rising all around the world. So, we don’t even get to express our political choices on an even playing field. Read […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: We are approaching a period of fiscal dominance
The dissonance in mainstream economics and the political debate about policy settings is getting deeper and more public. Read here
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