Part3: A big-short scenario for Australia has been getting a lot of attention this week. John Hempton, Bronte Capital‘s chief investment officer (a hedge fund) and Jonathan Tepper, an economist and… Continue reading
Part2: A big-short scenario for Australia has been getting a lot of attention this week. John Hempton, Bronte Capital‘s chief investment officer (a hedge fund) and Jonathan Tepper, an economist and… Continue reading
Part1: A big-short scenario for Australia has been getting a lot of attention this week. John Hempton, Bronte Capital‘s chief investment officer (a hedge fund) and Jonathan Tepper, an economist and… Continue reading
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5 years ago was 2010. It was already post the GFC of 2007-08. It feels like yesterday? Yet have a look at… Continue reading
This is a cross-post of a diagram and text we originally did for the P2P Foundation and which they first published on their wiki “http://blog.p2pfoundation.net”. It unexpectedly generated a lot comments…. Continue reading
At a conference hosted in April 2015 by the real wolf of Wall Street Mike Milken (sentenced to ten years in prison for racketeering and securities fraud in 1989, fined… Continue reading
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The Art Gallery of New South Wales is currently exhibiting a monumental work from Jitish Kallat, “Public Notice 2”. It reproduces a foundational speech from Gandhi pronounced on… Continue reading
The Australian Magazine The Monthly published in its August 2015 issue an excellent interview of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. With the benefit of hindsight, he comes back on the circumstances of… Continue reading
In anticipation of this coming week’s US Fed meeting to decide on short-term interest rates, some analysts have been discussing an interesting link between food prices and the US Fed rates. Here… Continue reading
From FT Alphaville | Feb 06 08:30
This (Syriza and the French indemnity of 1871-73) is literally the best analysis of the euro area’s problems we’ve ever read. You should take the time… Continue reading
A good column by Australian economics journalist Alan Kohler on what is looking less and less like a Black Swan (as everyone sees it coming), and more and more as… Continue reading
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It is hard to see clearly what is exactly going on in the current negotiations around the Greek debt, but one thing can be certain is they are… Continue reading
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A few weeks ago, the French National Library and the Annales Journal co-organised a debate to allow 350 people crammed in the Library’s great auditorium to listen the new… Continue reading
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Marxist French economist Frédéric Lordon who clearly rejects mainstream neoclassical economics positions, but also challenges the Left has written a pugnacious and thoughtful critique of PIKETTY’s book “Capital in the 21st… Continue reading
Un truc de guedin, r > g => i. C’est ce que vous avez pu découvrir émus dans le précédent épisode lacrymal de ce résumé magistral du Capital au XXIème… Continue reading
Dans le résumé précédent du Capital a XXIème siècle que vous pouvez lire ici, Thomas Piketty nous dévoilait les champions de l’accumulation du capital. Poursuivant son raisonnement pas à pas,… Continue reading
Comme vous avez sans doute pu le lire ici, le capital semble dire : la classe moyenne ça suffit. Pourtant le capital augmente. Mais alors qui s’enrichit Piketty ?
L’explosion des… Continue reading
Dans les résumés précédents de premiers chapitres Capital au XXIème siècle, dont le dernier est accessible ici, nous avons lu, et vous avec j’espère, que pour Thomas Piketty le capital… Continue reading
Il est donc apparu évident à Piketty et à nos lecteurs ici que la bonne rente, ça vous gagne. Le capital au XXIème siècle se poursuit alors en explorant le… Continue reading