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Political economist, author and public speaker

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Debt-deflation

How to transfer power away from markets to democratically elected governments

/ Capital Flows, Central Banks, Debt, Debt-deflation, Ecosystem, Federal Reserve

This article was written in July, 2020 for Project Syndicate where it was finally published on 1st October, 2020. The global economy suffers from dangerous imbalances.  Economic goals for endless ‘growth’ lead to rises in heat-trapping gases that conflict with the earth’s limited capacity to manage rising toxic emissions.  Urbanisation, pollution, soil erosion, deforestation, depletion […]

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Top economists warn against post Covid-19 austerity.

/ Austerity, Bretton Woods, Debt-deflation, Deflation, Neo-liberal Economics

This brief piece by Ann Pettifor appeared in the New Statesman on 4 May, 2020. Top economists warn the UK not to repeat austerity after the Covid-19 crisis. Mariana Mazzucato, Robert Skidelsky, Ann Pettifor, David Blanchflower and others on why the UK must not impose spending cuts in response to higher debt. It is clear

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Interview with New Zealand’s Biggest Business Website – STUFF

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Debt, Debt-deflation, ECB, Economic Orthodoxy, Federal Reserve, Inflation Targeting, Interest Rates, Uncategorized

On the 15th April, this year, I visited New Zealand at the invitation of the Institute of Directors, to address 600 CEOs at their annual meeting. This is an interview given to the journalist Rob Stock in which he asked about the possibility of another financial crisis. “Ann Pettifor predicted the global financial crisis, and

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Green New Deal – ‘The Cuts won’t work’ report is published.

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Climate Change, Debt-deflation, Environment, Finance Ministers, Fiscal Conservatives, Fiscal Deficit, Government Borrowing, Green New Deal, Public Spending, Treasury, Uncategorized

7th December, 2009 This is the press release from the new economics foundation: “Two days ahead of the pre-budget report, and as the UN climate change talks open in Copenhagen – the second report from the authors of the original Green New Deal argues that the British Chancellor is likely to miss a historic opportunity

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Faux optimism & flawed economics

/ Debt-deflation, Foreclosure, Neo-liberal Economics, UK Financial Crisis, Unemployment

December 1st, 2009 There was much huffing and puffing by the cheerleaders for premature economic recovery when the Office for National Statistics revealed that the UK was still in recession last week. These same ‘pied pipers’ tried to discredit the ONS’s previous factual announcements. Now the CBI has reported an ‘unexpected’ dip in sales in

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No way to run an economy

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Bernanke, Central Banks, Consumer Debt, Credit Crunch, Debt, Debt-deflation, ECB, Euroland, Federal Reserve, Finance Ministers, Foreclosure, IMF, Spain, World Bank

Ann Pettifor: September 24, 2009 As world leaders meet in Pittsburgh and then Istanbul (for the World Bank and IMF meetings) expect much self-congratulation and back-slapping for having got the world through the post-Lehman crisis. But behind the cacophony of self-praise, watch out for three alarms flashing red: The escalating foreclosure and rising mortgage delinquency

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