MEPs reject European Banking Authority director nominee, Gerry Cross. "The rejection of Cross is a strong signal against the powerful influence of the banking lobby in Brussels," said Sven Giegold: bit.ly/373u2JE

#WarrenDropOut

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wins Democratic presidential primary in California, claiming biggest prize on Super Tuesday. apne.ws/s6qetm7

Meltdown: US stocks trading halted at -7%, oil down 25% in a day

#teszteljcili

A senior group of Labour staffers actively conspired for the party to lose the 2017 election. That's the headline allegation from the leaked Labour HQ report ... this is a Watergate moment, not just for Labour but for British politics 1/...

ujegyenloseg.hu/a-koltsegvetes… My very positive review in Hungarian of freshly read Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

my review of Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World by Michael A. Schuman goodreads.com/book/show/5259… via Goodreads

In 2019, the average hourly labour cost was €27.7 in the EU-27, ranging from €6.0 in Bulgaria to €44.7 in Denmark. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/stati… #Eurostat #StatisticsExplained

visegradinsight.eu/are-the-visegr… Asia is a success story. Visegrad is not.

In my new book Mission Economy I look at changes needed inside governments and public-private relationships to make ‘stakeholder’ capitalism real. NASA had “no EXCESS profits” clause in contracts with business. Capabilities and confidence get us to moon! marianamazzucato.com/books/mission-…

You can watch the video of this panel on my book, courtesy of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung FES Connect, featuring FocaalBlog founding-editor Don Kalb, Szikra Dorottya, Krisztina Soreg & Zoltan Pogatsa. Palgrave Sociology Video: facebook.com/FESBudapest/vi… Check out the book: palgrave.com/gp/book/978303…

Unless you want to argue that Sweden would, counterfactually, have had an even worse recession in 2021 than the one it actually experienced, the “Swedish COVID policy” tradeoffs are looking pretty bad right now! John Authers h/t (((The Daily Shot))) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Thrilled to see How #China Escaped #ShockTherapy being picked up in the debates around the post-socialist transformation of Eastern Europe. Thanks Zoltán Pogátsa Visegrad Insight for the joint review with Julian Gewirtz's book! visegradinsight.eu/avoiding-the-p…

This is terrifying new research. Fires in the Amazon now emit more carbon than the forest absorbs. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Gains in global renewable energy capacity from 2010 to 2020 have been outstripped by growth in fossil fuel use by a factor of three. Scaling up renewables is not enough. We need to actively scale *down* fossil fuels. And right now none of our leaders have plans to do this.

So let's see how the rate hikes are affecting loan (deposit) growth ;)

political bombshell this morning in Berlin: CEO of publisher Springer ordered Germany's biggest tabloid paper to campaign in support of FDP so they could more effectively counter the Greens and thinks climate change is a good thing for human civilisation

Greenpeace and other campaign groups are set to take the European Commission to court today, seeking to overturn EU rules that class nuclear energy and natural gas as climate-friendly investments👇#taxonomy

A pleasure to meet with Márton Gulyás — a fighter for justice and democracy in Hungary.