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Economics as if People Really Mattered - Week Six: 26 March 2013 - Conclusion

Posted in events, capitalism, Economy, Banks on Mar 26th, 2013 No Comments »

Economics as if People Really Mattered - Week Six - Conclusion from conormccabe

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Debt and Danger (1987) - Credit and the IMF

Posted in capitalism, Banks on Mar 11th, 2013 1 Comment »

Selection from the 1987 publication, Debt and Danger: The World Financial Crisis, by Harold Lever and Christopher Huhne, which discusses the rise of credit in the post-war period and the austerity policies of the IMF in Latin America.
The chapters hold a lot of relevance for us here today in Ireland and the EU, as the […]

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THE FINANCIAL CRISIS REPORT: SHADOW BANKING

Posted in capitalism, Banks on Sep 24th, 2012 1 Comment »

Extract from the 2011 Financial Crisis Inquiry Report. Covers the rise of shadow banking in the US. The file can be downloaded here.

Open publication - Free publishing - More banking

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AN OVERVIEW OF SHADOW BANKING FOR JOURNALISTS

Posted in capitalism on Sep 24th, 2012 2 Comments »

Great post by RepoWatch editor Mary Fricker on shadow banking.

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NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION: WHERE DOES MONEY COME FROM?

Posted in capitalism, Banks on Sep 23rd, 2012 No Comments »

Website here.

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COME IN UNDER THE SHADOW OF THIS RED ROCK

Posted in capitalism on Aug 28th, 2012 No Comments »


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“Everytime you hear a bell, an angel gets his wings”

Posted in capitalism, Bastards on Jul 17th, 2012 No Comments »

You know when you read a phrase or someone mentions it and it kind of rings a bell?
Well, I always associate the phrase ‘we’re no angels’ not with the two films of that name, but with John Burton mainly because of the column written by Gene Kerrigan where he tells the story of Fine […]

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Mary Mellor, The Future of Money: Referenced Articles from Chapter One.

Posted in workshop material, Irish Capitalism, capitalism, Ireland on Jul 8th, 2012 1 Comment »

I’m facilitating a series of workshops at the moment, the focus of which is on the nature of money, finance and banking in Ireland and the EU. The core text that we’re working off is Mary Mellor’s The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource.
The class on Wednesday is focusing in on […]

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IT JUST AINT HIP

Posted in capitalism on Jun 22nd, 2012 No Comments »


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FOR THE WORLD IS HOLLOW AND I HAVE TOUCHED THE SKY

Posted in capitalism on Jun 14th, 2012 2 Comments »

MAP OF THE SHADOW BANKING SYSTEM

[High-Res. copy of the map available here.]
The report by Moodys is from 2008 and is available as a PDF here. The author of the report is Zoltan Pozsar.

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