Debtonation: The Global Financial Crisis » international financial architecture http://www.debtonation.org Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:33:49 +0000 en hourly 1 Times: Worst of slump yet to come, says economist http://www.debtonation.org/2009/09/read-anns-interview-in-todays-times/ http://www.debtonation.org/2009/09/read-anns-interview-in-todays-times/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:31:52 +0000 admin http://debtonation.org/?p=2725 From The Times: September 1st

Phil Thornton’s Times interview with me on the economy today.

“The economy is no longer in freefall and, as a result, there’s an enormous amount of complacency from politicians, in particular, about what will happen next. I believe politicians have given away the opportunity to restructure the banks and reconfigure the system.”

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]]> http://www.debtonation.org/2009/09/read-anns-interview-in-todays-times/feed/ 4 How globalisation ends: Debtonation Day, plus two http://www.debtonation.org/2009/08/how-globalisation-ends-debtonation-day-plus-two/ http://www.debtonation.org/2009/08/how-globalisation-ends-debtonation-day-plus-two/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:25:51 +0000 admin http://debtonation.org/?p=2712 From Open Democracy: August 13, 2009

“A single day, 9 August 2007, will go down in history as ‘Debtonation Day’ – the beginning of the end of the deregulation and privatisation of finance that marks the era of globalisation.”

I wrote these words on 13 August 2007, in anticipation that the great stock-market collapse of four days earlier presaged the end of the era of neo-liberal globalisation.

So it has proved.

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