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COVID and Capitalism

Institutional Barriers Ian McKay -
Click here to view original web page at briarpatchmagazine.com Will anyone remember COVID-19? Already in 2023, one senses a strong reluctance to dwell on it....

The OECD and the Great Monetary Restriction

Institutional Barriers Ronald Janssen -
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu Stubborn attachment to monetary tightening as the cure for inflation will needlessly sacrifice economic activity and...

Interest rates: Monetary policy is always political as central banks opt to back the financial sector

Institutional Barriers Dan Cohen, Emily Rosenman and Martine August -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com As the Bank of Canada prepared to announce its decision on interest rates in early September,...

Isabella Weber’s Insights Have Neoliberal Economists Running Scared

Institutional Barriers Simon Grothe -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com For two years, the entire world has fixated on inflation. Instead of welcoming the revival ...

High drug prices in Canada are just one part of a bad equation

Institutional Barriers Sandra Sirrs and Joel Lexchin -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The Canadian health-care system is under pressure as service levels decline while costs escalate. Drugs are...

Heath care will only succeed through collaboration, not competition

Institutional Barriers Danielle Martin -
Click here to view original web page at spon.ca In the real world of health service delivery, the last three years have taught us a...

The Next Two Decades Will Be The Most Pivotal in History: This is the Global Phase-Shift

Institutional Barriers Nafeez Ahmed -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org A Nasa space scientist, water management engineer and AI chatbot programmer walk into a bar. It...

Meet the Canadian-born doctors who can’t work in Canada

Institutional Barriers John Paul Tasker -
Click here to view original web page at spon.ca There’s a shortage of doctors — and thousands of Canadian physicians abroad can’t come home easily Thousands...

The Dawn of Austerity and the Road to Fascism

Institutional Barriers Nick Serpe -
Click here to view original web page at www.dissentmagazine.org An interview with Clara E. Mattei, the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity...

Green subsidies: what about the global south?

Institutional Barriers Rachel Thrasher -
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu The new green race between the United States and the European Union threatens to leave developing...

Are we seeing the collapse of the U.S. dollar-dominated global economy?

Institutional Barriers James Meadway -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Two small but critically important pieces of news in the past few weeks are early indicators...

How not to deal with a debt crisis

Institutional Barriers Jayati Ghosh -
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu Jayati Ghosh warns against historically disastrous approaches to the sovereign-debt crisis hitting low- and middle-income countries. In...

Central Bank Capitalism Is Forcing the Global South Into a Debt Crisis

Institutional Barriers Robin Jaspert -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com The current policies of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve are being sold...

‘Wilful Ignorance’: Indigenous Delegation Incredulous At Bankers’ Attitude to Fossil Fuel Impacts

Institutional Barriers Matthew Green -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Indigenous delegates said they had been amazed at the “wilful ignorance” they encountered when demanding global...

Interest Rate Hikes Will Make Climate Change Worse

Institutional Barriers Lukasz Krebel -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com The UK government has not had a very good few weeks. With the now-sacked chancellor’s “mini...

Being poor is expensive; predatory lenders are making it worse

Institutional Barriers Stephen Wentzell -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca According to ACORN Canada nearly one in two Canadians are living paycheck-to-paycheck making them vulnerable to...
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