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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationTories rake in £11m from hedge funds and finance tycoonsExclusive: Financiers accused of buying ‘unparalleled access to the very heart of government’ as scale of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIt’s not just Barclays – tackling climate change means building a new banking systemProtests are spreading as banks’ investments in fossil fuels contradict their Paris pledges on climate change.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe UK tops the millionaire bankers league – but our overall prosperity is distinctly mid-tableA few thousand bankers are taking £6 billion a year from the UK economy, new figures show. What’s the opportunity...
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Published in: TransformationTransforming finance can help to tackle the biggest problems of societyThe current financial system is part of the problem, not part of the solution. So what’s to be done?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDoes money grow on trees?The debate about the banks' power to create money is becoming much more mainstream. After the recent event, Does...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK‘Divest!’: a minute to hold banks to account on fossil fuelsIf banks won't pull investment from fossil fuels, perhaps it's time to try another route.
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Published in: Home"It's going to blow up one day"Marc Bauder's Master of the Universe runs like a sociological narrative of high finance as experienced by one man,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy we can’t leave the power to create money in the hands of banks or regulatorsWe cannot rely on failed regulators to prevent banks from abusing the power to create money, as Ann Pettifor suggests.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJust Money, introductionIn this exclusive extract from Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance Ann Pettifor...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe IMF – our sleeping beauty?Finance has cast a spell on the framework for international economic co-operation established after the Second World...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReuniting the monetary union: a proposal to counter the eurozone’s imbalances
Persistent trade imbalances are threatening to derail the European economy. Luca Fantacci calls for a European...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFinancial repression - myth, metaphor and reality“Financial repression” always casts state regulators as authoritarian villains and allows apologists for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUnderstanding and confronting financialisationThe growth of finance over the last forty years has changed capitalism profoundly. It is time for its critics to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKShadow banking, or why black holes are important in the global financial system
The shadow banking sector is now integral to the global financial system. Its architects are constantly seeking to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Keen-Krugman debateThe debate between these two economists on the role of banking and specifically the creation of credit is of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhose money is it?Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Money is currently produced by a ‘public-private partnership’...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe can end the despotism of finance, at a priceTo mark the publication of Ann Pettifor's e-book, Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFrankenstein's bankers - the tale every taxpayer should knowIt is now 5 years since the banking crash but its effects are still with us. What exactly happened, what has the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMore than a lobby: finance in the UKFinance and the British state are mutually embedded to the point that it can be hard to tell where one stops and the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe ills of financial dominanceThe power of the financial sector in Britain has worked a transformation on the country’s ‘common sense’. A...
