Thursday, 26 December , 2024

debt

Debt Forgivness and Nationalization Are the Answers to the Economic Crisis

By Paul Craig Roberts March 23, 2020 The US airline companies have bankrupted themselves by buying back their stock in an enrichment scheme for CEOs and...

Corona Debt Jubilee

By Michael Hudson March 22 2020 Cross posted from the Washington Post. Michael Hudson, author of “… and forgive them their debts” and “Killing the Host,” is...

Escaping the Debt Trap

You can’t really understand the world, especially global North-South relationships, without understanding how foreign aid works. The Debt System will help you do that....

Debt Wars and the fate of Europe

The following article was written in 2013, still we believe that some of the main ideas underlying it remain even more relevant today, given...

Goldman Sachs and Eurogroup 2015: Kafka in the Room!

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos March 17, 2020 In a previous article we argued that the Greek “bailout” program, the Loan Agreements and the “memorandum of understanding” imposed...

Eurogroup 2015: the birth of post-modern totalitarianism

By Dimitis Konstantakopoulos March 12, 2020 If there was a tribunal for crimes during peacetime similar to the Nuremberg Tribunal, one of the first cases to...

Greece: Drone soars over thousands of ‘NO’ protesters as referendum looms...

Ruptly’s drone captured thousands of people flooding Syntagma Square in Athens, Friday, in support of a ‘no’ vote in the upcoming bailout referendum. Greek...

No, the coronavirus is not responsible for the fall of stock...

By Eric Toussaint 5 March 2020 We are witnessing a big crisis in the stock markets of the Wall Street, Europe, Japan and Shanghai, and many...

Lebanon to Default on Eurobond Debt for First Time – Prime...

07.03.2020 On 6 March, Lebanon’s Financial Attorney General Ali Ibrahim imposed a ban on the asset management of 20 local banks, as well as on...

World Bank concerned about “global debt wave”

By Nick Beams 21 December 2019 World Bank research has pointed to a global wave of debt since 2010 that has led to developing countries...