The Four Horsemen film opened in Belgium last week, but the premiere didn't take place at the sold out multiplex – it was held four hours prior to that screening at Leuven high security prison.
The Renegade Economist in conversation with Ann Pettifor.
Tyler Durden pointed out yesterday that just three weeks after Goldman made the case for equities relative to bonds, the muppets who had listened to their advice were getting skewered.
For economics nerds like me the last week has been riveting. Paul Krugman, a Nobel-prizewinning member of the economics establishment, has been debating with Steve Keen, a radical who’s long argued that the conventional economics taught in universities is woefully unrealistic because it ignores important features of the real world like uncertainty, the role of banks, debt and how money is created.
In another desperate effort to prop up the British Ponzi housing market David Cameron is offering council tenants £75,000 to help buy their own homes.
What does the close relationship between Prime Minister, David Cameron, and mathematician and philosopher Nasim Taleb mean for UK economic policy? And if Mr Taleb's theories on Black Swans, risk and debt are being absorbed by the PM, what are the implications be for savers and investors?
This chart tells millions of stories. I’m trying to get my head around its implications.
A couple of days ago, Zero Hedge reported that a lot of student loans are delinquent: As many as 27% of all student loan borrowers are more than 30 days past due.
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