Tweeting Brexit: Narrative Building and Sentiment Analysis
Twitter can be considered a novel type of elite media that enables agenda setters to communicate directly with other agenda setters and a politically active part of the public
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Public Support for the Euro
Why a Brexit, even if it moves forward, seems unlikely to lead to a Eurozone breakup.
Read more...Ilargi: Ungovernability
“Ungovernability: or why the legitimacy crisis will only get worse.
Read more...Perfect Hindsight: on Breder Suasso of NZ and elsewhere, Global Transaction Services, of Hong Kong, Georgia (US) and London, mBank and Pekao Bank SA of Poland, and Ceska Sporitelna AS of the Czech Republic
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Read more...RBS Looted Small Business Customers, Deliberately Driving Thousands in Bankruptcy, While Under Government Ownership
How RBS destroyed thousands of small UK businesses for fun and profit.
Read more...Ham-Handed Theresa May “Hard Brexit” Stance Roils UK Pols, Not Just EU
Theresa May may have thrown a spanner in the Brexit works by pushing for a xenophobic “hard Brexit”. Accident or design?
Read more...Social Democracy, the “Third Way,” and the Crisis of Europe, Part 1
The birth of the Third Way —a turn away from class-struggle politics and a compromise with neoliberaism—and how it shaped the Eurozone.
Read more...Theresa May Outs Herself as Wall Street’s Poodle in Brexit Talks
It would be better if the latest Brexit news were a farce….
Read more...The City Will Decline—and We Will Be the Poorer for It
What might Brexit-induced losses to the City cost the UK economy?
Read more...Law Enforcement Losing War on White Collar Crime
Governments are losing the war on economic crime and considering new approaches, including involving the private sector to a greater degree.
Read more...Deutsche Bank and a $10Bn Money Laundering Nightmare: More Context Than You Can Shake a Stick at
Deutsche Bank’s $10Bn: the shell company back story
Read more...Japan Throws Spanner into Brexit Negotiations
Multinationals just weighted in on the Brexit talks, in the form of a letter from Japan’s government.
Read more...Brexit Delusion Rises Even Further: City Pumping for Presumptuous, Nightmarish-to-Negotiate “Swiss Plus” Plan
The Brexit fantasies get even bigger as the City pumps for a na ga happen “Swiss plus” plan.
Read more...Brexit – A View from North of the Border
The result of the referendum seems to have little to do with the economic benefits or otherwise of EU membership. They seem to have been driven more by issues of sovereignty and a negative reaction to the Westminster ‘establishment’. Nonetheless, the implications of the UK’s trading relationships post-Brexit are important. A central issue is whether ideology or pragmatism will emerge triumphant from the negotiations that will soon begin between the UK Government and the EU.
Read more...Lousy Experts: Looking Back at the Ex Ante Estimates of the Costs of Brexit
An economist contends that economists do not bear much responsibility for the Brexit vote.
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