Showing posts with label financial crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label financial crisis. Show all posts
25 August 2014

Sovereign and Sovereignty

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I am wondering whether I can persuade the cast of Blackadder to assemble for one last hurrah. The plot will revolve around the growth of...
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1 February 2014

Chronicle of a Crisis Foretold

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A guest post by Paola Raffaelli, who is an expert in the Argentinian social economy and is studying for a PhD at Roehampton University The...
31 January 2014

US Monetary Selfishness is Devastating for 'RoW'

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Remember the World Series? The naming of this League has always struck me as an interesting insight into how the US sees the rest of the w...
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25 November 2013

Royal Bank of Scandal Reaches New Low

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The Tomlinson Report into the practices at the Royal Bank of Scotland, compiled under instruction from Vince Cable's Business Departm...
15 November 2013

Living off Our Children

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On Wednesday next week, 20th November, students across the country will unite under the banner of the Student Assembly Against Austerity ...
19 October 2013

Deconstructing Austerity I. Money

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The narrative of austerity as proposed by Osborne and his cronies is that our huge national debt is the responsibility of feckless Labour po...
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7 August 2013

How is the Chancellor Engineering a Pre-Election Boom?

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After several years of dire economic news, suddenly, just about the time when parliament went into recess, the stories about the British eco...
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26 July 2013

Make Your Money Work Twice as Hard

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It was Treasury Management training day today and as chair of the Audit Committee I get to receive up-to-date financial analysis. Our excell...
20 July 2013

Quantitative Easing for the Poor?

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Creating money was once looked on as a dangerous game, destabilising the economy and potentially leading to rampant inflation. But this trad...
19 July 2013

Drop the Debt, Dublin Style

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Campaigners from the Anglo: Not Our Debt camapaign were busy in Dublin this week, investigating a crime scene. They cordoned off the Centr...
11 July 2013

One Rule for the Rich?

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My suspicions were aroused when the credit-rating agencies started criticising the capital holdings of the Co-operative Bank. After all, a...
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20 June 2013

When is a Co-operative Not a Co-operative?

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I was glad to be able to host Peter Pannier's well-informed explanation of the travails of the Co-operative Bank. Since I have spent ...
18 June 2013

What is Going on at the Co-operative Bank?

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A longer-than-usual guest blog by Peter Pannier and begins a process of analysis of the troubles at the Co-operative Bank and their implica...
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12 June 2013

This is What Austerity is For

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In a climate of fear and austeria the received wisdom is that you should not be concerned about the size of your pay cheque: you should be g...
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24 March 2013

When is a Tax Haven Not a Tax Haven?

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This question began forming itself in my mind last month when I heard a presentation from Lynne  Oats , Professor of Taxation and Accounti...
23 March 2013

Why I am Not a Communist

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Hell, I am not even a socialist and have never claimed to be. As a Green it is my firm opinion that we are part of a new ideology and one th...
19 March 2013

Dangerous Liaisons with Financial Markets

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The results from the Luxembourg jury are in. Thanks to Green MEP Sven Giegold citizens across Europe have been feverishly reading up on the ...
18 March 2013

What is Going on in Cyprus?

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Why is the banktruptcy of a tiny economy in the Mediterranean making headlines across Europe? The answer is that the Cyprus solution is wh...
12 March 2013

Vote Now to Counter Dangerous Finance

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Following hard on the heels of the bankers' bonus cap the European Green Group are proposing further action to control the damage that...