Wednesday, 4 December , 2024

banks

Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor

Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations' drugs and crime...

Rescuing Veneto Banks Would Have Cost Less With Indirect Nationalization

by Marcello Minenna Published in www.socialeurope.eu The Italian government has launched a package of extraordinary measures to handle the crisis at Veneto Banca (VB) and Banca...

The power of money: how the rich took hold of our...

By David Beer To wrest back control from private finance, to reclaim our “hollowed out democratic institutions,” we must begin with a public understanding of...

From Capital to the Capitol

Paris, by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos   The cameras are set low. They show him slightly taller than he really is as, alone, to the accompaniment of the...

Ten Proposals to Beat the European Union

  This collective text initiated by Eric Toussaint, of the CADTM campaign for the abolition of the debt of the global South has been collectively...

Automates in Finance

At JPMorgan Chase & Co., a learning machine is parsing financial deals that once kept legal teams busy for thousands of hours. The program, called...

Trump’s bonfire of banking rules could burn us all

By Nils Pratley Original Post date: 6 February 2017   The last thing we want at this point in time is a relaxation of regulation,” said Mario...

Galbraith on Greece, Trump, Europe and US Dollar

  "The issue is whether a break (of Greece) with Europe would make things better (for Greece). And that is an issue that has to...

IMF – The secret documents, or how they destroyed Greeks and...

The CADTM draws attention to two IMF documents dating from March and May 2010 that were kept secret. These authentic documents were placed at the disposal...

Trump declares War on Europeans

US President Donald Trump’s likely pick for ambassador to the European Union has said that the single currency “could collapse” in the next year...