Instead of solving its crisis, the European Union postpones and prolongs it. This state of irresolution suggests a more serious and profound evil: the loss, perhaps final, of historic vitality. …
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Europe: Keynes buried due to fiscal adjustment and austerity
After the first two months of 2012, it becomes relevant to reflect upon the performance of the global economy and to present some forecasts for the current year. In USA, …
Read More »Resolving the Food Crisis: global leaders fail to make crucial reforms
The spikes in global food prices in 2007-8 served as a wake-up call to the global community on the inadequacies of our global food system. Commodity prices doubled, the estimated …
Read More »How a financial homeland works
Even more dangerous than tax havens are the great financial homelands. Even more dangerous than tax havens are the great financial homelands. When British Prime Minister David Cameron vetoed the …
Read More »An end-of-the world crisis, but what world?
The world that is coming to an end is both unsustainable and unfair. The world that prepares itself to take its place is an uncertain world. Europe is today the …
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