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Capitalism needs to heal. But mounting greed among the professional classes is choking our post crash recovery. In the run up to the 2008 crisis, financial speculation was large, dominant …
Sinking in the klepto- professional reign Read More
Mainstream economics’ failure to predict the 2008 crash undermined the profession’s public credibility. There’s a new game in town that financial risk guru, Rick Bookstaber, has faith in. He shares …
Rick Bookstaber Interview: A model agent Read More
Professor Verity Bastion sees little cause to reflect on economic yester years and encounters a leading light in the black economy. So it looks like we are going to suffer …
A second brush with royalty Read More
Rick Rowden lays out how Trump, Wall Street and the Republicans are committed to dismantling financial regulation in the US. Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation passed in the wake of the 2008 global financial …
The attack on Dodd-Frank Read More
Paul Nicolson is a wine merchant, a minister and a lifetime battler for people who struggle to fight for themselves against the unjust and powerful. He had some stories for the The Mint. Paul’s family business …
Paul Nicolson Interview: Scarred with episcopal incomprehension and other tales Read More
Shrouded: Few knew what was brewing inside Northern Rock in 2007. Ten years ago Northern Rock disappeared in a cloud of smoke and mirror practices, opacity and mistrust. Richard Murphy asks, …
Volcanic Rock: are we prepared for the next eruption? Read More
The principles underpinning behavioural economics have been attracting legislators seeking to rein in the excesses of the financial sector. Are theymotivated by saving face, political gain or doing right by …
Regulating behaviour: time off for good conduct? Read More
What does a cocaine baron have to offer society? Self-confessed chief misfit, Alexa Clay, has seen the best in some of the worst. Somali pirates throw great parties. This we …
Weird and wonderful Read More
Can we avoid financial instability or has our human nature evolved in such a way that they are inevitable? Clearly Gordon Brown’s endless pronounce- ments of the end of ‘Boom …
When will they ever learn? Read More
Imagine a world where company success was determined by all the good it does. And where polluters of water, air and soil could not get investment. The Mint talks to …
Interview with Christian Felber: The Common Touch Read More