Economics

For Immediate Release Tuesday, August 30, 2016 – 2:30pm Global Justice Now (via Common Dreams) Contact: Kevin Smith, media officer Tel:  07711 875 345 or 020 7820 4913 Email: kevin.smith@globaljustice.org.uk Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) could lock in privatisation and…

‘Negotiations with the U.S. have de facto failed, because of course as Europeans we couldn’t allow ourselves to submit to American demands’ by Nika Knight, staff writer for Common Dreams This post has been updated. Germany’s Vice Chancellor and Economic…

Nobel laureate says Obama’s push to get lawmakers to pass deal during lame-duck session of Congress is “absolutely wrong” by Andrea Germanos, staff writer for Common Dreams Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has reiterated his opposition to the Trans Pacific…

Technological developments are rendering many jobs obsolete. Can implementing a universal basic income provide a way of managing the social and economic implications of such a radical transformation? By DARIAN MEACHAM for openDemocracy In early 2013, a colleague and I…

Various trade unions and other groups have called for protests against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) across Germany on September 17. A trade agreement with Canada has also come under attack. An alliance consisting of various public organizations…

‘Unacceptable’ wealth inequality keeps growing in the U.S., with the top 10 percent of families owning three-quarters of total wealth by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams Yet another report, this one from the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO),…

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – The announcement was made on August 15 by Japan’s Finance Ministry: In the last quarter of the year the Japanese economy grew at an annualised rate of 0.2%. “One wonders if the…

By Johan Galtung* Money is the key: that genius innovation for storing general value and exchanging specific values according to price.  Not strange, that heads of state had their faces imprinted on coins and bills. But not on cents and…

The Duke of Westminster has died at the age of 64 a few days ago. It was widely reported in the Media, obviously, one of the richest men in the UK, a member of the aristocracy, as close to the…

Leftist leader says growth “that favors the poor, growth with social justice, growth with equity,” worthy of pursuit byAndrea Germanos, staff writer for Common Dreams Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa on Sunday denounced “fantasies of trickle-down theories” and said that it’s neoliberalism,…