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The crisis of the global economy News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 - 00:56
Vasily Koltashov (Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow)

An endless series of Experts have recycled their opinions in Credit Crisis Anniversary-Festschriften over the last few weeks, but this one from the Moscow Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (www.igso.ru) actually has a historical perspective stretching beyond the calendar year. Good account of consumer credit gigantism as short-term supplement to 30 years of falling real wages in the 'old' industrial world, and of high commodity prices as effect rather than cause of inflation (i.e. more money 'created' than commodities produced).


Backstage at a Bank Funeral: Feds Swoop In on an Unsuspecting Town OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by ewelke on Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 - 15:43
Damian Paletta


In a time of credit crisis, small to medium bank branches are failing, forcing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to go in and clean up the mess. Coming in stealthily to avoid public panic and sudden withdrawal of all a bank’s funds, which would result in a sinking of the bank and possibly others in the area, the FDIC makes a quick job of taking over the bank.


How should the Middle East invest its oil profits? OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 - 20:50
Michael Hudson

Short article from Bahrain weekly 'The Gulf' in which the author of 'Super Imperialism' and 'Global Fracture' makes what is hardly the 'modest proposal' he pretends it is, and perhaps also gives a clue as to what he thought he was doing as 'economic adviser' to Denis Kucinich's presidential run. Hudson proposes that an unspecified bloc of 'Middle Eastern' state-capital should try to settle the dollar-standard blackmail once and for all by offering to buy the US out of the military infrastructure (i.e.


Subprime: A Different Cut Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 12 June, 2008 - 14:47
Randy Martin

As the US subprime mortgage crisis plays out, the ‘dual morality’ of its victims' treatment becomes stark. But, Randy Martin explains, bailing-out the banks while leaving defaulters to rot is just the latest in a 30 year campaign of ripping off the American working class

 


Private fascist initiative OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 - 16:17
Private Eye

Private Eye looks back at the birth of PFI and makes a not-so-surprising discovery.

A reader alerts the Eye to a 1940s history of Benito Mussolini, uncovered by a US think tank, and makes an unkind comparison with Gordon Brown's current favourite policy.  
   

subject: Business | Debt | History | State

Hillary joins the vast, rightwing financial conspiracy OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 18 April, 2008 - 21:31
Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson on the fiscal policy continuity from Reagan's supply side 'voodoo' through (Bill) Clinton-era government by Goldman Sachs bond traders (a tradition continued with Bush's appointment of Paulson) to the present crisis.

Resurrecting Greenspan
Hillary Joins the Vast, Rightwing Financial Conspiracy

By MICHAEL HUDSON


Hanging in the balance (PFI & PwC) OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 15 April, 2008 - 17:56
Private Eye

From Private Eye, the otherwise barely-reported story of the recent Treasury paper underlying the UK government's renewed commitment to more! bigger! better! PFI, which draws on the 'analysis' of PFI fee-farmers PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG etc.

    It has screwed scores of hospital budgets, snarled up the school building process and lumbered taxpayers with billions of pounds of hidden debts, yet the private finance initiative continues to thrive.  Why?


Walkabout OpenPublishing | Public Library
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 6 March, 2008 - 14:52
Michael Hampton

'Walkabout' a poem submitted by Michael Hampton would have fitted excellently with the collection of verse published as part of our recent issue on credit, debt and financial crisis. As a late arrival it joins the site here and as part of our Ongoing accumulation of fiscal verse 

Walkabout


these cartographies bleed biographies


The fight for equal pay for women: Britain's 'Guardian' defends union's dirty deals OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 9 January, 2008 - 19:23
Chris Marsden

From World Socialist Web Site (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/guar-j09.shtml), a telling example of what 'the real world' means when invoked by government, unions and sympathetic media.  The story of a group of women care-workers employed by Cleveland and Redcar council who were forced to turn to 'no win no fee' lawyers after to obtain back-pay withheld through a council-Unison stitch-up.  Guess whose side the 'Guardian' was on...


Three Talks by Loren Goldner Editorial content | News & Analysis
Submitted by mute on Monday, 31 December, 2007 - 15:46
Mute Events

THREE TALKS BY LOREN GOLDNER
London, Jan 19th, 21st and 22nd, 2008

New York-based Marxist Loren Goldner is giving a series of talks in London this month, hosted by Mute magazine [http://metamute.org]


Videos on housing struggles, sub-prime and free culture OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Monday, 19 November, 2007 - 13:38
Conservas

Several videos on housing struggles, sub-prime and free culture in Spain courtesy of CONSERVAS, Barcelona http://www.conservas.tk


public debt 4 Editorial content |
Submitted by saladofpearls on Friday, 28 September, 2007 - 08:50
public debt 4

Posters photographed on Commercial Road, London. September, 2007

subject: Credit | Debt

public debt 3 OpenPublishing |
Submitted by saladofpearls on Friday, 28 September, 2007 - 08:43
public debt 3

Posters photographed on Commercial Road, London. September, 2007

subject: Credit | Debt

public debt 2 Editorial content |
Submitted by saladofpearls on Friday, 28 September, 2007 - 08:34
public debt 2

Poster photographed on Commercial Road, London. September, 2007

subject: Credit | Debt

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