Brexit: Fear, Loathing, and Anger on Both Sides of the Channel
Politicians in the UK and the EU are virtually at each other’s throats over Brexit.
Read more...Politicians in the UK and the EU are virtually at each other’s throats over Brexit.
Read more...The unexpected impact of the fall in sterling in 2007-2008 suggests Brexit could produce a drastic drop in UK living standards.
Read more...The Brexit vote was a stunning repudiation of neoliberalism and austerity. But what comes next?
Read more...Bagehot outlined some of the requirements for global money. Are we closer to a solution?
Read more...Investors got a big dose of bad news about the economy and geopolitics and reacted accordingly.
Read more...The New Abnormal: a period of profound disequilibrium as the aftershocks of the Crisis collide with and complicate structural changes.
Read more...How Wall Street is interjecting itself into the economy so that more and more is diverted to pay interest, insurance and rent.
Read more...Which Eurobank has led the ECB to tap its dollar swap line with the Fed?
Read more...Is China as at much risk as Soros suggests it is?
Read more...Sanders’ financial transactions tax plan hasn’t gotten the hearing it deserves.
Read more...As hard as it seems to believe, the IMF is shaping up as a less bad actor in the continuing Greece austerity saga. Germany finance minister Wolfgang Schauble, by contrast, seems emboldened by Merkel’s fallen stature, which couldn’t come at a worse time for Greece.
Read more...A new leak shows the IMF as the least bad actor of the Troika, which given its record as a neoliberal fist in third world countries, speaks volumes about European politics.
Read more...Australia’s macro numbers are looking more worrisome by the minute. Is this a trajectory to a debt crisis?
Read more...The more you look at negative interest rates, the harder it is to find anything to like.
Read more...Brexit could damage London’s attractiveness as the centre of European banking, as an entry point to the EU and as a global financial hub.
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