Ann Pettifor

Ann Pettifor

Political economist, author and public speaker

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Knowles needs to listen more carefully to ‘hero’ Clinton on deficit reduction

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Bank Bail-outs, Banking Crisis, Central Banks, Debt, Financial Crisis, Fiscal Deficit, Greece, Interest Rates, Keynes, Money, Obama, UK Financial Crisis, Uncategorized, US Financial Crisis

The austerity brigade is rattled. Young Daniel Knowles over at the Daily Telegraph is so worried, he has had to rise to the defence of the Treasury and Office for Budget Responsibility – and then resorts to proposing Greece’s economic strategy for the UK. Why? Because orthodox economic ideology has been challenged by none other than Daniel’s …

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A tale of two presidents

/ Anglo-American Financial Crisis, Bank Bail-outs, Bankers in Government, Bernanke, Democracy, Federal Reserve, Iceland, Obama

5th January, 2010 Sorry about the delay in posting, but this is my latest blog for the Huffington Post. “One is president of a country of about 300,000 people — Iceland — a country about the size of Virginia, President Olafur R. Grimsson. The second is president of a country of about 300,000,000 people, the …

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The tears of the unemployed, of auto CEOs and bankers

/ Central Banks, Credit Crunch, Debt, Financial Crisis, Globalisation, Obama, Uncategorized, US Financial Crisis

6th December 2008 The tears of millions of Americans stripped of livelihoods and healthcare remain hidden from view, unlike the tearful special pleading of the unscrupulous leaders of the finance sector, and this week, of the auto industry CEO’s. The latest unemployment numbers to emerge from the Dept. of Labor imply immense pain and anguish; …

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