Monday, May 21st 2012
Ulrich Rippert | German state election reveals an all-party coalition against the population
Ulrich Rippert says that the parliamentary election in Germany’s most densely populated state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) on May 9 is already having national repercussions.
Looking back, business circles have the fondest memories of the Social Democrat Party (SPD)-Green Party coalition led by Gerhard [...]
Mourinho was give the Catalans a Brazilian!
I am sure you was all saw the Champions League semifinals match on Wednesday night, played in Spain’s seventh most important city, Barcelona (after Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Toledo, Oviedo, and Pontevedra). I am only now this morning come round from my stupendous party, which have been going on for [...]
A group of economists has written an open letter to European policymakers criticising their collective failure to address the Greek crisis as a European crisis. It sets out the various causes of the Greek crisis, of which poor fiscal management by that country is only one, and points out the European dimension of the problems. [...]
David Harvey | Guardian Business Podcast
David Harvey on the Guardian Business podcast talking about his new book The Enigma of Capital, crisis within capitalism and other things such as the current debt crisis in Europe, the economic powerhouse of China, the inability of Obama and the Democrats to challenge the “Party of Wall Street”, the [...]
Originally posted on Socialist Economic Bulletin.
The Tory Party has launched a joint manifesto with the Ulster Unionist Party.
This is a revival of a formal alliance that stretches back nearly 100 years, when the anti-Home Rule wing of the Liberal Party (the ‘Liberal Unionists’) split and joined the Conservatives to form the Conservative and Unionist [...]
The arrival of Matthew Elderfield a.k.a. The Financial Regulator a.k.a. The Regulator a.k.a. The Sheriff of Dodge City has been universally heralded by the media and political establishment as the second coming of Christ. Well, the Christ of ledgers, calculators and informal speeches at the Financial Services Ireland Conference anyway.
At a time when public sector workers and government are almost [...]
CANTON GLE SERIES HOME THEATER SPEAKER SYSTEM ($3,046)
As tested, this system comprised a pair of GLE 490 floor-standing towers, a GLE 455 center speaker, a pair of GLE 420 surrounds, and an AS 85 SC powered subwoofer. The 1-inch soft-dome tweeter found in all the speakers employs a fabric dome, but this new-and-improved version also [...]
Dean Baker | The European Central Bank Is Strangling the Eurozone
Dean Baker in his Beat the Press blog on the ECB’s failure not only in the Greek Debt Crisis, but also it’s superstitious economic policy which will cause more problems for the Eurozone, principally countries like Spain, and Ireland.
It would have been helpful to point [...]
How fortunate we are to have a Government that knows what it is doing in these times of economic and fiscal crisis. And even more fortunate that we have commentators who can report this in an informed manner. This is important when considering the terrible flap going on in the international markets with all this [...]
Radical Irish Lives: Peadar O’Donnell by Donal Ó’Drisceoil - Cork University Press
The recent reportage of the teachers’ unions conferences would have delighted Peadar O’Donnell, who began his career as an activist in the INTO. The general tenor of the media response was ‘how dare these people object to having their pay slashed and conditions of [...]
