By Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant and a political economist. He has been described by the Guardian newspaper as an “anti-poverty campaigner and tax expert”. He is Professor of Practice in International…
Throughout the war in Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has often drawn lines in the sand only to cave soon after. Berlin is once again saying it won’t go any…
Yves here. This post is written in a clinical manner, but it nevertheless attempts to assess the impact of the effort of the EU to divorce itself economically from the…
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Conor here: It’s interesting to read this in tandem with all the gnashing of teeth from capital about worker shortages. The Brookings Institution recently estimated that “the labor force is about…
By Conor Gallagher For the better part of a year the Putin administration has been accused of using “twisted logic” to spread the “false narrative” that Poland might join the…
Yves here. As many of you know, despite being willing to give economists with a broad range of views a hearing, Putin’s approach to the economy has been pretty neoliberal,…
Yves here. With so many news stories with the volume at 11, the Clarence Thomas bribery scandal (there’s no way to pretty this up even in the absence of an…
Yves here. Given the baked-in failure to take early and aggressive enough action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it seems almost inevitable that second-best approaches like carbon capture and geoengineering…
Yves here. I give Matt Bruenig credit for taking the brouhaha over Twitter labeling National Public Radio as state owned media seriously and assigning himself the controversial task of determining…