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Who’s backing Glencore’s toxic mining? (You, perhaps?)
Banks and pension funds in the UK and Europe are helping to ruin lives in Colombia and Peru,
Vanessa Baird
writes.
When the world almost ended
Ten years after the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression,
Yohann Koshy
takes stock of what went wrong and where we are.
Myth 7: Financial regulation will destroy a profitable banking sector
Why should financial markets be accountable only to themselves? asks
David Ransom
.
Getting away with murder
Susan George
tells a story that's beyond belief.
The big bank boondoggle*
Big private banks have been resurrected by the crisis they caused, says
David Ransom
.
Naked Emperors
It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for? What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a 10-point economic detox programme.
The road to meltdown
How did we get here? *David Ransom* takes a global – and historical – look.