Why We Brits Should Vote for Brexit
Why England would be better served by leaving the European Union.
Read more...Why England would be better served by leaving the European Union.
Read more...Thanks to EU and Eurozone misrule, Le Pen is right when she says: “Nothing can stop us”.
Read more...The IMF has now been drawn into the U.S. Cold War orbit.
Read more...In France, members of Arab and African communities languish in a spiral of poverty, relegated to second-class citizenship and physically separated through deliberate planning.
Read more...Apparently, if 15 countries vote to occupy Greece, it’s a done deal.
Read more...German financialization and input on the eurozone’s financial architecture promoted deficits, increased systemic risk, and facilitated the onset of Europe’s subsequent crises.
Read more...An excerpt from CEPR co-director Mark Weisbrot’s important new book, Failed.
Read more...A chronicle of Angela Merkel’s rise and a catalogue of recent political mistakes which are putting her chancellorship at risk.
Read more...The Eurozone needs fixing, but it is impossible to agree upon the steps to be taken without agreement on what went wrong. This column introduces a new CEPR Policy Insight that presents a consensus-narrative of the causes of the EZ Crisis. It was authored by a dozen leading economists from across the spectrum. The consensus narrative is supported by a long and growing list of economists.
Read more...More on the ground readings on the impact of austerity in Greece.
Read more...Empire-booster-in-chief Niall Ferguson gets yet another well-deserved shellacking, this time on how he falsifies the record in drawing lessons from Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Read more...How Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s remarks to the DIet about the TPP reveal a lot about the aims of this deal and its vulnerabilities.
Read more...GXG Markets is gone but the dirty dealings continue
Read more...A look at Iceland’s financial crisis, why it happened and what can be done to mitigate the potential for similar chaos in the future.
Read more...The big thing I’ve learned since I hung up my keyboard as a generalist blogger is to, as much as possible, stay in my lane. I share everyone’s horror at the Paris attacks, and like everyone else have my own thoughts, however unformed, on the best way forward. But I make no pretensions to deep insight on international terrorism and a Middle East that has confounded just about every so-called expert for as long as I’ve been alive. So I’d rather just try to keep up with developments (and you’ll see more of that in the Links).
But there is something, first brought to my attention by Chris Hayes, on which I may be able to comment intelligently. Details are a little murky, but it appears France is seeking some wiggle room on the Schengen agreement.
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