
Tag: finance


Report: Palestinians Are Having Their Bank Accounts Frozen. Their Banks Won’t Explain Why
Sebastian Shehadi

Opinion: White Collar Workers, Welcome to the Revolution
Aaron Bastani
With huge layoffs in finance, tech and journalism, disaffected white collar workers could be about to get radicalised, argues Aaron Bastani.

Opinion: Maybe Twitter Should Die?
Moya Lothian-McLean

Downstream: 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 […]

Explainers: 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.

Analysis: Bankers Are Driving the Wheat Price Explosion, Not the War in Ukraine
Matteo Tiratelli

Downstream: Liberalism Is in Trouble. Aaron Bastani Meets Francis Fukuyama

Downstream: 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.

Report: OnlyFans’ Ban – and Its Suspension – Shows That Banks Have a Chokehold on Sex Work
Marin Scarlett

Analysis: What Does the European Super League Furore Tell Us About Modern Capitalism?
Aaron Bastani

The Bastani Factor: 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 […]

Downstream: 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.

Analysis: ‘We Don’t Want Socialism’: How WallStreetBets Rejected the Left
Jack Chadwick

Novara FM: Capital, Care and Crisis

The Bastani Factor: The World According to the Economist with Alexander Zevin

Opinion: Does the Bank of England’s Funny Business Signal a Push for Free-Market ‘Solutions’ to Come?
James Meadway
