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Neil Delamere Talks Economics with Bill Black

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Devin Smith | Comments Off

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NEP’s Bill Black talks economics and the Irish economy with Neil Delamere on Neil’s Sunday Best program. You can listen here.

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Tagged ireland, Kilkenomics

BBC Propaganda War v. Greece Reaches New Low After “No” Vote

Posted on July 6, 2015 by William Black | 11 comments

By William K. Black
Quito: July 6, 2015

If you want to know why economic policy has gone insane in the UK you simply have to read the work of the BBC’s “Economics editor,” Robert Peston. I showed one example of his failed effort to terrify the Greeks into voting “Yes” in favor of continuing the self-destructive policies that have forced Greece into worse-than-Great Depression levels of unemployment in my most recent column. Peston argued that the Greeks had to submit to the troika’s demands that it make these policies even more economically illiterate and self-destructive because the troika would otherwise ensure that Greece’s economy was “utterly crippled.” As you know, the EU stands for “ever closer union.”

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Tagged BBC, ECB, greece, IMF, ireland, troika

Irish-Style Banking Inquiry into the 2008 Financial Crisis

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Devin Smith | Comments Off

NEP’s Bill Black on The Real News Network discussing his recent testimony in Ireland for a banking inquiry and the challenges the country faces in acknowledging its financial crisis. Video is below. For the transcript, click here.

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Tagged banksters, Great Financial Crisis, ireland, tax havens, troika

Neo-Liberals’ Dismissal of Latin Americans as “Idiots”

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Devin Smith | 11 comments

By William K. Black
(Cross posted at Benzinga.com)

Alvaro Vargas Llosa (AVL) co-authored the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot with two other journalists. He revisited the subject with an article in 2007 entitled “The Return of the Idiot.”

“The ‘Idiot’ species, we suggested, bore responsibility for Latin America’s underdevelopment. Its beliefs — revolution, economic nationalism, hatred of the United States, faith in the government as an agent of social justice, a passion for strongman rule over the rule of law — derived, in our opinion, from an inferiority complex. In the late 1990s, it seemed as if the Idiot were finally retreating. But the retreat was short lived. Today, the species is back in force in the form of populist heads of state who are reenacting the failed policies of the past, opinion leaders from around the world who are lending new credence to them, and supporters who are giving new life to ideas that seemed extinct.” Continue reading →

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Tagged CATO institute, ecuador, emigration, Iceland, ireland, latin america, neoliberalism, Portugal, spain

The Miraculous Turnaround in Ecuadorian Migration under President Correa

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Devin Smith | 6 comments

By William K. Black

I have recently presented a series of talks and authored a series of articles on Ecuador’s and Italy’s leaders’ policy responses to their nation’s challenges.

Why is the failed Monti a “technocrat” and the successful Correa a “left-leaning economist”?

Note to Italy: Please send us more Saracenos

Ecuador: Bank Spreads, Taxes, Executive Compensation and Growth

Craziness on Three Continents

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Tagged Austerity Doctrine, correa, ecuador, ireland, Italy

Sinn Fein emerges as the only Honest and Economically Literate Irish Party

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Stephanie Kelton | 8 comments

By William K. Black

I was never one of the Irish-Americans who felt that Sinn Fein and the IRA were romantic groups. Yes, some of the songs of resistance are stirring, but there is nothing romantic about the IRA’s violence for many decades. Sinn Fein’s artful ambiguity about its support for peace v. the armed struggle caused me to distrust the Party’s leaders.

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