Private Equity Bought the World – And Dug Capitalism’s Grave
Richard Hames Meets Hettie O'Brien
The gravediggers are coming from inside the housing bubble.
Tag: finance
Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again
James Jackson
It’s fine, they’re pro-Palestine.
Palestinians Are Having Their Bank Accounts Frozen. Their Banks Won’t Explain Why
Sebastian Shehadi
‘There’s no hope of escaping the Israeli bombs without my money.’
White Collar Workers, Welcome to the Revolution
Aaron Bastani
There’s a new reserve army of labour - and they’ve got MBAs.
Maybe Twitter Should Die?
Moya Lothian-McLean
We’d lose the memes - but also the moral panics.
The Plan Is to Make You Permanently Poorer | Aaron Meets Gary Stevenson
In 2011, while working as a City trader, Gary Stevenson joined the ultra rich with a single bonus cheque. Not long after he was named one of Citibank’s highest performing traders worldwide. Stevenson made millions for his employer by betting on one thing: that the British and American economies would fail to recover from the […]
The Establishment’s Plan to Deal With Inflation
As inflation rises the establishment has a solution: we all need to get poorer. The alternative is for profits to fall – but that is unacceptable to the powerful. Aaron Bastani on how only unions can save us.
Bankers Are Driving the Wheat Price Explosion, Not the War in Ukraine
Matteo Tiratelli
Global starvation is a choice.
Liberalism Is in Trouble. Aaron Bastani Meets Francis Fukuyama
Few political thinkers exert such an influence that their work becomes synonymous with a historic era. Francis Fukuyama’s declaration of “the end of history” after the fall of the Soviet Union made him one. Aaron Bastani speaks to Fukuyama on the publication of his new book, Liberalism and its Discontents.
How the Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial
Aaron Bastani speaks to George Monbiot about COP26, which countries are climate change leaders and how the mainstream media enabled a culture of climate denial when it mattered most.
OnlyFans’ Ban – and Its Suspension – Shows That Banks Have a Chokehold on Sex Work
Marin Scarlett
It isn’t just the law that sex workers have to worry about.
What Does the European Super League Furore Tell Us About Modern Capitalism?
Aaron Bastani
The new league wasn't about sporting excellence - it was about solving a debt crisis.
Rishi Sunak Found the Magic Money Tree
After 2010 British politics was shaped by one idea above all others: austerity. We were told that there wasn’t enough money to pay for EMA, university fees, council housing or even the existing range of benefits. And yet the government’s response to Covid-19 demonstrates the extent to which that was a political choice rather than […]
Can Capitalism Solve Its Crises? Interview With Mariana Mazzucato
What can the Apollo Missions teach us about dealing with the major crises of the 21st century? And why are politicians so eager to dwell on caricatures of the public rather than engage in problem-solving – from climate change to housing and education? Aaron Bastani speaks to author and academic Mariana Mazzucato to find out.
‘We Don’t Want Socialism’: How WallStreetBets Rejected the Left
Jack Chadwick
Capital, Care and Crisis
Emma Dowling joins James Butler to discuss care in the shadow of capital.
The World According to the Economist with Alexander Zevin
Since 1843, The Economist has been the single most devoted and influential champion of liberalism anywhere in the world. But what exactly is liberalism, and what does the output of the Economist tell us about it?
