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TTIP: We Were Right All Along

The European Commission’s claim that the TTIP is aimed at ‘help[ing] people and businesses large and small” is shown to be a flagrant falsehood.

Don Quijones: Wrath of Draghi Hits Germans Who Refuse to Blow Their Savings

Draghi plans to beat savers until morale improves.

Nuland Tells Cyprus To Cut Russian Ties – Pressures Anastasiades To Accept Nato Plan For Turkish Troops In Cyprus

Victoria Nuland is leading a US effort to pressure Cyprus to accept a secret NATO plan to keep Turkish forces on the island.

Trade Costs of Border Controls in the Schengen Area

Granular analysis of the cost of imposing border controls along refugee routes versus ending the Schengen system, as well as who has the most to lose.

So Which Eurobank is Having Dollar Funding Problems?

Which Eurobank has led the ECB to tap its dollar swap line with the Fed?

Don Quijones: A Blow to Transatlantic Corpocracy – Support for TTIP Begins to Unravel

Why the TTIP “trade” deal is looking wobbly.

Star Trek or The Matrix? Varoufakis’s Challenge to Neoliberalism

Varoufakis gave a wide-ranging talk on the considerable conflict between neoliberalism and democracy, and why democratic rule produces better results.

Mathew D. Rose: Merkel’s Refugee Strategy – A Brown Nose Becomes the Chancellor

Toadying up to dictators and intervening in failed states are major elements of Merkel’s new improved refugee strategy.

Italy’s Atlas Bank Bailout Fund: The Shareholder of Last Resort

By Silvia Merler, former Economic Analyst in DG Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission (ECFIN) and an affiliate fellow at Bruegel. Cross-posted from Bruegel. In Greek mythology, Atlas the Titan was condemned by Zeus to eternally hold the weight of the sky on his shoulders. A mythological struggle that has recently made the […]

How European Union Fiscal Rules Subverted Democracy and Institutionalized Neoliberalism

A good overview of how fiscal rules gave neoliberal ideology and unaccountable bureaucrats the upper hand in the EU.

Greece-Troika Train Wreck Shaping Up for July Despite IMF Leak

As hard as it seems to believe, the IMF is shaping up as a less bad actor in the continuing Greece austerity saga. Germany finance minister Wolfgang Schauble, by contrast, seems emboldened by Merkel’s fallen stature, which couldn’t come at a worse time for Greece.