Posted in Marxism, capitalism, Economy on Jan 20th, 2011 No Comments »
Excellent interview with David Harvey, via Wisconsin Public Radio.
It deals with the dynamics of finance capital since the 1970s.
Have a listen and keep in mind Ireland’s pit-stop in the international financial capital route - i.e. the IFSC.
The skim off the top which Irish financial service providers got for washing this money - therein lies one […]
Posted in capitalism on Dec 3rd, 2009 2 Comments »
In the run-up to Christmas my daughter has started to feed us with ideas for Christmas presents that perhaps Santa or we her parents could provide. The main ones have been decided upon, and she is all set to write her letter to Santa. However, the other day the missus, who you shall know as […]
Posted in capitalism, Banks on Sep 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
From the Postscript to the Second Edition of The Long Twentieth Century (March 21, 2009) by Giovanni Arrighi
“According to Braudel, ‘financial expansions,’ are symptoms of maturity of a particular phase of capitalist development. In discussing the withdrawal of the Dutch from commerce around 1740 to become ‘the bankers of Europe’, Braudel suggests that this […]
Posted in capitalism, Death of a Tiger, Economy, irish culture, Irish Economy, Irish Society, politics/Ireland on Jun 13th, 2009 7 Comments »
Part one in a 24-part series detailing the collapse of the Irish financial system.
At the end of the post, there are two thumbnail images which link to higher-quality copies.
Enjoy.
Continued tomorrow…
Posted in United States, capitalism, Marx on Jun 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Below is an audio recording I made of Bill Fletcher Jr´s talk at the Working Class Studies Association´s Conference, which was held in Pittsburgh this month (June 09). Bill is a long-time political and labor activist, and is also executive editor of Black Commentator. I’ve also uploaded seven minutes of video of the same talk, […]
Posted in capitalism on May 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Gavin has uploaded all the PDFs associated with the 2002 Ansbacher report with links to each of the Appendices. Needless to say, I haven’t read it all (or even 1% of it) but while scanning the introduction I was reminded that the ‘Ansbacher’ investigation started in 1997 as part of the McCracken Tribunal.
Considering that the […]
Posted in capitalism, fuckwits, Irish Middle Class, Banks on May 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Hilarious little clip from RTE’s Questions and Answers, 27 April 2009, when the former CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland (Ireland), Mark Duffy, was asked his opinion on the government’s wasteful electronic voting debacle.
Enjoy.
Posted in capitalism, Banks, Irish social history, Irish History on Apr 23rd, 2009 13 Comments »
People look back on events in Irish history and they think: how could we let this happen?
Keep that in mind when NAMA hocks our future in order to save the skins of our indigenous economic elite. Because baby you look back at what that elite was doing during those dark times and the sense […]
Posted in capitalism, Economy, Banks, Irish Economy, Irish housing on Apr 21st, 2009 7 Comments »
I like Paul Krugman. He’s a liberal, somewhat left-leaning, a Keynesian at heart, and, like Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate. Usually he gets things right. His latest opinion piece on the Irish economy is not really one of those times.
Not that he gets it wrong, mind. His latest opinion piece is not about Ireland […]
Posted in capitalism, Economy on Mar 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
Whether we can get out of this crisis in a different way depends very much upon the balance of class forces. It depends upon the degree to which the entire population says ‘enough is enough, let’s change this system’. Right now, when you look at what’s been happening to workers over the last 50 years, […]
