Wednesday, May 23rd 2012
It Will be Grand | Cunning Hired Knaves
Richard of Cunning Hired Knaves has a translation of a joint statement from the citizens of Sol in Spain and Syntagma in Greece, against the proposed debt ceilings which the establishment of Eurozone countries are prepared to write into their constitutions. In Ireland this is uncontroversial. Sure, it [...]
Bondwatch | The Dirty Dozen w/e Sep 4th
From Diarmuid O’Flynn of Bondwatch….follow link to see the table.
It’s getting kind of frightening now. Look at the next six bonds, look at the sub-total at the bottom of the link. €18bn we pumped into the banks in July, recapitalisation, but if you’re wondering why the money isn’t [...]
Tax us more, say wealthy Europeans | World news | The Guardian
The German group, Vermögende für eine Vermögensabgabe (The Wealthy for a Capital Levy) is the latest manifestation of a feeling among some well-off individuals that the spare cash in their bank accounts might be able to ease, if not solve, the financial crises threatening [...]
When Lenin alighted on 3rd April 1917 at Petrograd’s Finland Station, a train was set in motion that upstaged, and eventually overturned, the Mensheviks’ plan for an ‘evolutionary’ path from absolute Tsarism to some form of social democracy. Ironically, it took a Finnish social democrat (newly elected finance minister Jutta Urpilainen) to derail once and [...]
Egypt’s military ruler Tantawi and the American siege of Gaza: revelations from Wikileaks | The Electronic Intifada
The US government was even more actively involved than previously known in enforcing the siege of Gaza along Egypt’s border with the territory, writes Ali Abunimah in his Electronic Intafada blog.
A US Embassy cable from April 2009 released by [...]
Gene Kerrigan is a little dubious about claims of Ireland’s ‘unexpected economic recovery‘. The article by David Vines and Max Watson of Oxford University, which first appeared in the Financial Times, went viral Irish-style, reprinted in the Irish Times and Independent and featuring on numerous current affairs programmes. And why not? They claim the markets have [...]
Behind the News Podcast | Psychology of Class & Social interactions and Talking about Debt with Graeber
Great interviews on this Behind the News podcast with Dacher Keltner of UC-Berkeley on the psychology of class and social interactions - he comes across as a little Californian at times, talking about class and hierarchy in terms of animal [...]
Attempts to assess current prospects for the world economy have primarily focused on deceleration in US and European GDP growth. But world trade is clearly also indicating negative trends.
Trade is a particularly sensitive indicator as its fluctuations have had a greater magnitude than those for GDP but have moved in the same direction. Trade data is [...]
Gilbert Achcar: Who Are the Libyan Rebels? This is the $1 Billion Dollar Question | Democracy Now!
Yesterday in the Irish Times Fintan O’Toole returned to the subject of his column from the previous week, which is now known as Ireland’s Great Oil and Gas Giveaway (or GOGG for short) and deals very effectively with the Minister for the Environment Pat Rabbitte’s response to it, also published last week in the pages [...]
