Intellectual property like pharmaceutical patents is part of the story why so many people face a long wait for COVID-19 vaccines says Dean Baker discussing the high cost...
Producer - Lynn Fries
GPEnewsdocs founder Lynn Fries is an independent producer of video news and documentaries with a focus on the global political economy. Lynn´s research and video-journalism activities as a not-for-profit public service began in NYC in 2007. In 2012, upon relocating from the US to Europe, she established her production studio in Geneva. Most of her work during 2007-2019 was core to advancing The Real News Network (TRNN) ECONOMY. After the departure of TRNN founders, Lynn´s association with The Real News ended in 2019. Prior to public service broadcasting, Lynn was a senior professional at major NYC and London based financial institutions where she worked in collaboration with international teams of research analysts and economists.
Allied with landlords and monopolists, the finance sector is extracting economic rents from the economy that’s impoverishing US government, industry and labor says...
The governments of India and South-Africa backed by about 100 countries and counting are calling for a waiver on patents over COVID-19 related medicines and equipment...
Public interest led innovation in renewable energy is urgently needed. The financial sector is deeply compromised and cannot be relied upon to invest in effective...
Peter Drahos’ Survival Governance: Energy and Climate in the Chinese Century shows why US corporate-centric strategies, from shale production to carbon capture...
Deborah James on why we need to pay attention to proposed changes in global rules. Amid our pressing concerns with health and economic recovery, Big Tech works to ensure...
Jan Kregel explains the fundamental problem with the economic system is its focus on providing finance to investors. Hyman Minsky, who understood that financial...
Prabhat Patnaik reflects on the COVID-19 shock that has worsened the crisis triggered by globalized finance. Only two possibilities emerge: restructure capitalism by...
Robert Pollin advocates a macroeconomic agenda centered on full employment. The decades long neoliberal attack on the working class is heightened with COVID-19. The...
Heiner Flassbeck shows it defies macroeconomic logic to promote surpluses for Germany, prohibit government deficits everywhere else and forbid the central bank from...