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Wolfgang Schäuble: A criminal figure of German and European politics passes...
Upon learning the death of Wolfgang Schäuble, German Minister of Finance during the European Debt Crisis, Yannis Androulidakis, a Greek journalist posted the following...
Schaeuble dead at 81: Majority of Greeks don’t shed a tear…
Dec 27, 2023
Former German finance minister Wolfang Schaeuble has died at the age of 81 due to cancer, his family announced on Wednesday. Majority...
Countries Can’t Tackle Climate Change as They’re Drowning in Debt. This...
The climate crisis is here; it’s prime time for the pause clause
By Tess Lowery
June 1, 2023
For climate change vulnerable nations such as Pakistan, Fiji,...
Economic Recovery Fund as cover for neoliberal reforms
This translation of “Economisch Herstelfonds als dekmantel voor neoliberale hervormingen” was published on the Canadian site The Bullet
By Herman Michiel
8 August 2023
One usually has...
Africa: the debt trap and how to get out of it
Mar 27, 2023
Study carried out by the CADTM, the Left Group in the European Parliament - The Leftwww.left.eu
Executive summary and full version in pdf...
Who is the ruler of the world? Finance or the USA?
Fitch downgrades US debt on debt ceiling drama and governance worries
By Elisabeth Buchwald
Aug. 3, 2023
Fitch Ratings downgraded its US debt rating on Tuesday from...
The New Imperialist Structure
by Samir Amin
Contemporary capitalism is a capitalism of generalized monopolies. What I mean by that is that monopolies no longer form islands (important as...
Lapavitsas, Varoufakis and the suffering of the Greek people
Kostas Lapavitsas is a Greek economist working in the SOAS, the British University specialized in the old "colonies". During the whole Greek crisis he...
Greece: An engineered public debt
By Dimitris Lymberopoulos
Economist
Greece's debt isn't about money
Greece's debts really are unsustainable. This is just basically not a debatable point. The reason it's not genuinely...
German debt rules proposal fuels new austerity fear
By Jonathan Packroff
Apr 7, 2023
Languages: Deutsch
A German non-paper on the reform of European debt rules has been met with strong reactions from economists, who...