To Get Out of its Economic Crisis Europe Needs to Learn from China
Four years into the international financial crisis, it is clear that the economic policies followed in Europe to deal with it have failed to do so. For a long time, there was a refusal to...
View ArticleAnatole Kaletsky | Can the rest of Europe stand up to Germany?
Anatole Kaletsky | Can the rest of Europe stand up to Germany? Merkel doubtless believes that she is helping Europe when she maternally instructs the Greeks, Italians and Spaniards to “do their...
View ArticleGreece: The Chorus is Still Deliberating
Originally published in Cuarto Poder, Monday 18th June, in the aftermath of the Greek elections. Juan Carlos Monedero is Professor of Political Sciences and Administration at the Complutense University...
View ArticleAnn Cahill has plenty of sensible things to say about the Financial...
Ann Cahill has plenty of sensible things to say about the Financial Transaction Tax The fact that the tax will be based on the place that the trade is done means that if a trade...
View ArticleIreland Outside of the Euro | Public Meeting @Connolly Books Sat 14th of July
Related PostsEurope: the Path to Growth? (1)Last Night the Government Signed Up to €6 Billion More in Austerity Measures (1)Michael Roberts | Europe: default or devaluation? (0)The November edition of...
View ArticleIreland and the Financial Transactions Tax
The issue of an EU-wide financial transactions (aka Robin Hood) tax and Ireland’s potential participation (or lack of) has been in the news again recently. A tax of 0.1% on shares and bonds and a...
View ArticleWhy can’t you just all be a little more German? | Sebastian Dullien
Why can’t you just all be a little more German? | Sebastian Dullien We are often told that countries like Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain should be more like Germany. After all, their fiscal...
View ArticleIt is now official: The Eurozone’s monetary transmission system is broken
Very important blog post here from Yanis, so I thought I’d re-post it. Under normal conditions, the interest rates that you and I must pay on a home loan, a car loan, our credit card,...
View ArticleSpain’s MoU Dealing with the Symptom and Not the Cause
The Spanish newspaper El Pais has a story today on a version of Spain’s rescue package for the banks which has only been made available in Germany and the Netherlands but not in Spain. In...
View ArticleThe Mortgage Holders Platform: Resisting the Financialization of Housing
The Provisional University, an activist research and autonomous education project based in Dublin is posting a series of articles on the Mortgage Holders Platform (Platforma de Afectados por la...
View ArticleStrengthen Ties with the People and Maneuver Cleverly: The Tasks of the Greek...
The last few weeks have seen a number of crushing developments in Greece. Especially the Greek referendum and the signing of a new memorandum by the SYRIZA government are historical events which will...
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