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Can finance provide what humanity needs? As we approach 1.5ºC average warming, nature collapses, and conflicts escalate, this must be a reasonable question. Or is it naïve as finance is …
At the flip of a billion coins Read More
Interview with Gerald Epstein about his book Busting the Bankers’ Club Key Takeaways The “Bankers Club” (financial industry and supporters) has strengthened significantly since the Great Depression, making financial reform …
Might clubbing – summary Read More
Gerald Epstein is an unusual academic; he is also a Bankers’ Club Buster, by which he means someone who is part of the US movement to bust up the power …
Might clubbing Read More
Credit unions are huge in Canada. Guy Dauncey explains why the UK government might look to the world’s second-largest country to guide its bid for a more cooperative economy. 2022 …
Don’t bank on size Read More
Rishi Sunak is pushing ahead with Liz Truss’s plan to axe the cap on bankers’ bonuses despite warnings that boosting bumper payouts for the rich is “obscene”. Scrapping the limit on multimillion-pound bonuses …
Rishi Sunak carries out Liz Truss plan to axe cap on bankers’ bonuses Read More
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard. Review by Guy Dauncey Every healthy economy has a financial immune system to protect …
Gone for broke Read More
An excerpt from Serious Money: walking plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles Quant seems apprehensive as he arrives at the trendy east London Shoreditch bar, Looking Glass, where I am waiting, …
The Alchemy of value Read More
Whether you use Klarna all the time or have barely heard of it, it’s time to start paying attention: the buy-now-pay-later app has just become the biggest private fintech company …
The Klarna Conundrum Read More
Georgian lessons on the modern economy by Simon Sherratt. In March 1819, William Cobbett – an inveterate critic of the British government – penned a remarkable letter for inclusion in …
Money for nothing and other Newtonian repercussions Read More
A novelist and a mathematician have combined forces to produce a fictional account of the Lehman Brothers’ crash that injects life into soulless corners of financial teaching reading lists. Review …
A cross-field punt Read More