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2017: Europe’s Year of Rage
Leave a comment02/01/2017 by Don Quijones
After the tumult of 2016, Europe could do with a year of calm. It won’t get one.
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German Ifo Think Tank Chief Says Italy Risks Quitting Eurozone
102/01/2017 by Don Quijones
“The standard of living in Italy is at the same level as in 2000. If that does not change, the Italians will at some stage say: ‘We don’t want this eurozone anymore.’”
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The Global War on Cash – India’s Demonetization Debacle
101/01/2017 by Don Quijones
No one denies that India has a serious corruption problem. But most experts agree that demonetization– especially as implemented since November 8— is not an effective way of addressing this problem.
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Mark Blyth on Why the Financial Elite Just Can’t Get Enough of Austerity (For Others)
131/12/2016 by Don Quijones
In the following episode of RT’s On Contact, Chris Hedges sits down with Mark Blyth, one of select few economists to …
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Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Wide Web)
231/12/2016 by Don Quijones
By Danny O’Brien and cross-posted from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) It’s been twenty years since John Perry Barlow declared cyberspace …
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Who Exactly Benefits from Italy’s Ballooning Bank Bailout?
131/12/2016 by Don Quijones
All these events conform to a tired, old script.
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Did Big Media Run Fake Headlines on the Deutsche Bank “Settlement” ?
130/12/2016 by Don Quijones
In the ultimate irony, big media is taking the word of a bank that faces fines billions of dollars of fines for engaging in serial deceptions.