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Ashley Frawley
The myth of the workshy Greek
Ashley Frawley reports from Greece on the reality of the economic crisis: millions of people working hard for low pay or no pay.
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| Thursday 2 February 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
Banker-bashers: a lynch mob with PhDs
The mad political pursuit of ‘evil’ Fred Goodwin confirms that bankers are to posh commentators what paedos are to tabloid hacks.
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| Friday 21 January 2011 |
Sean Collins
Who are the real ‘devils’ of the recession?
For all the blame heaped on immoral bankers, it was poor profitability in the productive industries that fed the Wall Street monster.
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| Wednesday 6 October 2010 |
Rob Lyons
How Ireland became a giant Ponzi scheme
The fall of the Irish economy throws some much-needed light on what lies behind the current economic recession.
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| Thursday 10 June 2010 |
Rob Killick
Why cuts are not the answer to everything
Here’s a quick history lesson about the state and the market for the free-marketeers in the Lib-Con coalition.
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| Monday 22 March 2010 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
There is an alternative to austerity
Despite what politicians say, the way to reduce the UK’s fiscal deficit is to boost production, not curb consumption.
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| Wednesday 27 January 2010 |
Mick Hume
UK plc: a 0.1% chance of success at this rate
The ‘end of the recession’ in Britain? An honest debate about how to confront the malaise and restructure the economy has not even begun.
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| Thursday 22 October 2009 |
Sean Collins
This isn’t a recovery. It’s an Obama Bubble
Just because the Dow Jones Industrial Average recently reached 10,000, that doesn’t mean the US economy is springing back to life.
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| Friday 16 October 2009 |
Sean Collins
We’re all Keynesians now? I’m not
Robert Skidelsky’s book on Keynes gives a good account of today’s economic crisis. But its faith in the ‘master’ of economic debate is misplaced.
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| Tuesday 29 September 2009 |
Rob Lyons
A blame game you can bank on
Alistair Darling’s decision to bash bankers at Labour’s party conference was predictable, misguided and dishonest.
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| Monday 24 August 2009 |
Tim Black
Why I’m opposed to a maximum wage
It masquerades as progressive, but the campaign to cap big bonuses is really a moralistic critique of ambition.
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| Wednesday 5 August 2009 |
Mick Hume
Don’t bank on it, Brown
The notion that the UK banking sector will rescue the economy is as misplaced as the claim that a few bankers were to blame for the crisis.
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| Tuesday 28 July 2009 |
Rob Lyons
Fiddling with loans while Rome burns
Darling’s attack on banks for failing to make credit available shows he still has no big ideas for overcoming the recession.
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| Thursday 2 July 2009 |
Rob Lyons
Desperately seeking an economic revival
The British government seems more interested in saving its own skin than devising an economic strategy.
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| Wednesday 24 June 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
Why unemployment is no longer a political issue
Thousands are being thrown on to the dole queue, yet there are no mass uprisings, no widespread strikes, no marches for jobs. Why?
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| Wednesday 24 June 2009 |
Tim Black
‘This is only the beginning’
Tim Black spent the day with strikers at the Lindsey oil refinery, listening to Freddie Mercury and some heated conversation.
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| Monday 22 June 2009 |
Tim Black
Bring me the head of Fred Goodwin
Commentators called for Goodwin’s head to be put on a spike. Now, courtesy of an EU-funded arts festival, it very nearly has been.
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| Thursday 18 June 2009 |
Frank Furedi
Why the state cannot save the economy
Instead of having arid debates about the state versus the market, we must create institutions and policies that can restructure the economy.
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| Wednesday 17 June 2009 |
Rob Lyons
The new c-word in British politics: cuts
British politicians’ utter lack of honesty about the depth of the recession will make matters worse in the long run.
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| Tuesday 9 June 2009 |
Sean Collins
Government Motors is no substitute for General Motors
Yes, GM showed itself incapable of mass-producing decent cars and keeping people employed – but Obama’s intervention won’t turn things around.
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