Economist, Robert Wade discusses why the Icelandic government imposed controls over movement of international funds across its borders & the challenge of current negotiations to lift those capital controls...
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Because they were unwilling to deal with the debt problem at its origin and unwilling to provide enough fiscal stimulus, they relied excessively on monetary policy and an exit from this will be very difficult...
Jobless growth wasn’t an accidental product, it was how the rules were framed says Vijay Prashad discussing how concentrated economic power, jobless growth and ecological disaster are the result of a...
Trade rules should be about closing the gap between current wants and the ability of the planet to sustain or fulfill those wants not about increasing volumes of new wants. This is an ecological nightmare says...
Allowing big multinational corporations to enter your country to modernize agriculture is very dangerous because essentially you are losing sovereignty over your food says Vijay Prashad in a conversation about...
People who own things have disproportionate economic power in society. We’ve made it impossible to create economic power for workers says Vijay Prashad in a critique of rules-based system of global trade that...
The unbearable debt imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles after WWI, the subsequent debt forgiveness & restructuring of Germany’s external debt after WWII and Germany’s position today as a...
In Germany, unfortunately, the historical lessons are not even discussed. We’re asking debtor countries to repay their debt, but at the same time we are preventing them being able to do so says Heiner...
In 2013, the US Federal Reserve system turns 100 (1913 – 2013). Jane D’Arista, author of ‘The Evolution of U.S. Finance’ and former staff economist for the U.S. Congress, commenting on the...
Next year is the 100th anniversary of the Fed. We need a complete, thorough, and very thoughtful evaluation of this institution says author of ‘The Evolution of U.S. Finance’, Jane D’Arista...