Thursday, 28 March , 2024

2008 Financial Crisis

The Breakaway | By Perry Anderson

21 January 2021 It is​ now a year since Britain left the EU, and less than a month since the terms of its separation were...

La crise grecque : Première «bataille» d’une «guerre» pour l’Europe –...

De Dimitris Konstantakopoulos 20 Mars 2010 «Nous ne mourrons pas pour Dantzig», disaient les Français il y a soixante-dix ans. «Nous ne paierons pas pour les...

Becoming Serfs

By Chris Hedges Aug 26, 2018 You know the statistics. Income inequality in the United States has not been this pronounced in over a century. The...

A decade since the 2008 crash

Protracted crisis looms with Southern debt, slowing growth By Amy Padilla Sep 25, 2018 Ten years since financial markets crashed in the United States (U.S.), the...

Lehman Brothers, 10 ans après, par Jacques Sapir

19 Septembre 2018 Le dixième anniversaire de la « crise des subprimes » suscite un intérêt renouvelé pour ce qui se passa alors, les...

The global implications of the Turkish lira crisis

16 August 2018 As the tenth anniversary of the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis approaches, the ongoing turmoil engulfing the Turkish lira sounds...

Socialising the banks: some historical examples

by Eric Toussaint 21 March 2018 How well a country controls its banks has a profound effect on its history. The Paris Commune was wrong to spare...

Congress and Trump: Finance Uber Alles

Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback By Alan Rappeport and Emily Flitter May 22, 2018 WASHINGTON — A decade after the global financial crisis tipped the United...

Good enough for government work? Macroeconomics since the crisis

By Paul Krugman Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 34, Issue 1-2, 5 January 2018, Pages 156–168, 05 January 2018 Abstract This paper argues that when the financial...

How Economics Survived the Economic Crisis

Unlike the Great Depression of the 1930s, which produced Keynesian economics, and the stagflation of the 1970s, which gave rise to Milton Friedman's monetarism,...