The Endgame of Capitalism A giant Ponzi scheme runs its course as elites prepare for the day after How can this be? The world’s major stock markets recorded very strong gains between spring 2020 and summer 2021. In a year in which global economic output suffered a severe slump, in which many millions of people […]
The Endgame of Capitalism A giant Ponzi scheme runs its course as elites prepare for the day after Introduction Part 1: Power to the corporations A pandemic exposes the prerogatives of capital Applause instead of money for the systemically important Cui bono? Subsidies for tax fugitives Luxury booms in the crisis The power of […]
My latest book “Endspiel des Kapitalismus” (The Endgame of Capitalism) was published in October 2021 by Quadriga. The Endgame of Capitalism A giant Ponzi scheme runs its course as elites prepare for the day after The Author (CV) Table of Contents Introduction Reading samples from … World government illustrated: The World Economic Forum The nature […]
16 June 2021 |The Spanish government is pursuing eminent economist Andreu Mas-Colell with unspecified accusations of misappropriation of public funds with regards to the Catalan referentum of 2017, even though he had been retired for years at that time, writes Princeton professor Alexandre Mas, his son, in this guest comment.
15 June 2021 | The hypocrisy of a working group led by the European Central Bank (ECB) on the preservation of cash, which is dominated by banks who at the same time continue to wage their war on cash, has been exposed by cash industry group ESTA in a report. ESTA sent the report to […]
3 May 2021 | As part of its rather secretly “announced” cash strategy, the European Central Bank (ECB) has commissioned a working group of interested organizations to catalogue problems of the cash cycle. A clash between banks and the cash industry association is casting doubt on the sincerity of the endeavour.
13 April 2021 | Many poor countries were pushed to privatize their pension systems to the benefit of international pension funds and insurance companies. After reversing this costly failure, they are sued by financial companies who want their expected profits guaranteed.