Catégorie : Politics

Published on VOX.org, by Knut Are Aastveit, Gisle James Natvik, Sergio Sola, October 19, 2013.

Many analysts blame uncertainty for at least part of advance nations’ poor economic performance since the crisis. This column discusses new research showing that the economic impact of monetary policy is dampened when uncertainty is high. This means that high uncertainty forces monetary policymakers into a trade-off between acting decisively and acting correctly as policy must be more aggressive than otherwise in order to stabilise economic activity. The finding is particularly stark when uncertainty measures from financial markets are utilised.   Continuer la lecture de « Economic uncertainty and the effectiveness of monetary policy »

• on Outside The Box/on YouTube-search, an UK Column hosted by Jason Liosatos, uploaded by ukcolumn: Patrick Henningsen as guest – Episode 1: 38.36 min, September 19, 2013; Episode 2: 51.16 min, Sept 20, 2013;
• on Red Ice Radio: Patrick Henningsen, Hour 1 Syria …, 59.35 min, uploaded by jack jill, Sept 11, 2013: (Homepage);
• on On The Edge: Patrick Henningsen, 47.49 min, uploaded by OfficialEdgeMediaTV, May 10, 2013: (Series 3, Episode 32 – Homepage);
• on News For The Waking Generation: Patrick Henningsen of Info Wars & Russia Today, 81.36 min, uploaded by Videos From The Underground,Nov 5, 2012 (Homepage).

Published on Civil Eats, by Bob St Peter and Raj Patel, October 18, 2013.

Imagine a country where ideologues bent on land reform turn agriculture into the plaything of the world’s richest investors, and poor local farmers are locked out of millions of acres prime agricultural land. Then stop imagining some African country run by a despot and his friends and start picturing the United States. Rural America is on the cusp of one of the greatest transfers of land in its history and no one’s talking about it.   Continuer la lecture de « USA: This Land is Our Land? »

Published on Dissident Voice (first on AlterNet), by Anna Simonton, October 18, 2013.

From the narrow windows of New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, 24-year-old anarchist Jerry Koch can see the last place he stood as a free person.  Continuer la lecture de « How the FBI Manipulates Grand Juries to Intimidate Political Dissidents and Radicals »

Published on Spiegel Online International, an essay by Erich Follath, October 16, 2013.

China, India and Brazil are taking the global economy by storm, becoming more politically confident on their way. But even as they form a front against the West, they will have to tackle slower growth and major domestic problems that their newly prosperous citizens are no longer willing to tolerate … //

… Getting in on Western Commerce:   Continuer la lecture de « Emerging Challenges: What's In Store for the New Global Powers, Part 1 »