The UK poverty problem is more than a story about austerity
by Shaun Richards Timing can sometimes be if not everything very important and so the release of the UN report on UK poverty by Phillip Alston on the day we … Read more
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Mark Blyth On Brexit, the Euro, Austerity, and the Rise of the Technocrats and Oligarchs
by Jesse “Europe will be forged in crises, and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises.” Jean Monnet, Memoirs “I’m very pro-European, but I’m against the euro, … Read more
Romania BET Crashes over EU Austerity Tax Increases
by Martin Armstrong I have been warning that raising taxes is DEFLATIONARY because you are reducing the net disposable income. Governments simply cannot get that through their head. In Romania where protests … Read more
More austerity to come for Greece? Hundreds protest against first post-bailout budget…. EU bureaucrats get huge Christmas bonus
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Athens on Tuesday, as the first post-bailout economic budget went to vote in the Greek parliament. Protesters with banners and signs marched … Read more
“The End of Austerity in Europe”: What Happens When Demands for Fiscal Cutbacks Result in Violence?
There was a time when European governments couldn’t utter a fiscal policy statement without mentioning the word “austerity.” Now, the concept seems to have all but disappeared from public discourse. … Read more
The UK public finances are seeing outright austerity
by Shaun Richards The UK Public Finances are something that have been quietly improving over the past year or two. This has been taking place mostly outside the news headlines … Read more
Behind your back: Whitehall’s unelected Brexit sabotage, French hypocrisy on eurozone austerity, wasted aid to India.
by John Ward An occasional series aimed at those who suspect they’re being told lies about pretty much everything but are too busy to check. It is not aimed at fluffies, feminists, diehard … Read more