UK Uncut: the cuts are necessary? The cuts are fair? We are all in this together???

The UK Uncut initiative is a wonderful expression of the Signs of Our Times: it began with a Twitter hashtag #ukuncut what manifested as a sit-in of 70 people in a Vodafone store in London and spread across the country in no uncertain way. Spread the word, join in actions, or at least smile! One [...]

It’s “media official”: The economic crisis was an ‘inside job’

When the Washington Post publishes The economic crisis was an ‘inside job’, it must be true. Rejoice in the points that the author makes about the movie Inside Job written and directed by Charles Ferguson.

Credit Crisis? Cash Crumble is the Reality!

Slideshare is the place for publishing your PowerPoint slides, if you feel like it. They staged a competition into explaining the credit crunch in 30 slides which I discovered only after the deadline. However, I tried to say it in these twelve slides.

Our Purpose

This blog addresses the core issues of what’s labelled as the credit crisis.  It distinguishes between economic language – knowing that economics has been created as a soft social science to camouflage what central banks and banks are doing – for private benefit rather than the public good monetary language – knowing that the currency [...]