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February 7, 2020 | Dear readers, after almost six years it was time for modernizing this website. The most important changes are a dynamic layout and secure (https-)connections. There are some further improvements, in particular in this English-language section of the website. …

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In the first six years of this blog, my reporting has made a difference here and there. It contributed to the break-up of the anti-labor Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and to the European Central Bank no longer sending a representative as a member of the shady G30 group…

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All too often the power of money seems insurmountable. This is a story that shows that courage, tenacity and solidarity can do a lot. In this case, a powerful, extremely well connected academic and his institute, lavishly financed by Germany’s largest employer, fell because they wanted to silence a critic who fought back.

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Mathew D. Rose – Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime, Ruediger Rossig – Investigative Journalist, Balkan Expert, Nick Shaxson – Investigative Journalist and Author of “Treasure Islands” and David Shirreff – Former finance and business journalist at The Economist and Author of “Break up the Banks!”, Playwright are the editors of the new progressive weblog Brave New Europe, featuring texts from dozends of well-know authors.

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Page views in Thousands.*

Note: most entries on this Website are in German. This is a list of the most-read English stories, only. Last updated, 10 April 2018.

A well-kept open secret: Washington is behind Inida’s brutal Experiment of abolishing most cash  (Jan 17)	223
Was it worth it? Concessions to Greece relative to the rejected draft of 16 February (Feb 15)	46*
The power of gold: Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons in New York	41*
How India became Bill Gates’ guinea pig: A conspiracy as recounted by the main actors (Feb 17)	24*
Was it worth it for Schäuble? What did he gain by blocking Varoufakis’11 February proposal? (Feb 15)	20
More evidence of early US involvement in Indian demonetisation (Jan 17)	18*
IMF tells governments how to subvert public resistance against elimination of cash (Apr 17)	18*
Modi, Yunus and the financial inclusion mafia (March 17	19
A $500 bn pot of gold: How Boston Consulting and Google pushed Modi to end the era of cash (Jan 17)	15
Draghi insists on continuing the G30-scandal – new report is out (Oct 15)	13
Author’s recommendations
Economics as Superstructure: Presentation at the House of Lords (March 15)	7.8
George Soros’ INET: An institute to improve the world or a Trojan horse of the financial oligarchy? (March 14)	6.2

* Stories marked with asterisk have been posted after a technical relaunch in Januar 2017. For these stories, the number of clicks should be more or less equal to the number of readers. For all others, the number of readers will be up to a third lower than the number of clicks.

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