The following article is written by Tony Phillips an Irish and Argentine economist specialising in the build up to and the consequences of excessive national debt. He is Editor (with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former Argentine minister for … [Read more...]
The undersigned call on the US, the EU, and Canada to exclude any form of Investor-State-Dispute Settlement from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), from the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and from all other trade and investment agreements.
This week, the US and the EU will resume negotiations on investment protection in TTIP. The European Commission – claiming to have listened to public opinion – produced its proposal for a ‘new’ Investment Court System (ICS) that would allegedly … [Read more...]
VIDEO: Economist Esther Jefferson talks on shadow banking
Esther Jeffers, a French economist specialised in banking gave a talk on shadow banking in DIT on 5th April 2014. The talk was organised by Attac Ireland. The video is now online, so check it out! A brief dictionary of some terms used (source: … [Read more...]
Fact Card: People Rise Up Against Finance! Why Should You?
STOP TTIP/CETA/TISA These charters for global corporations will, if passed, allow them to ride roughshod over the democratic decisions of sovereign nations and impose their own binding laws in new layers of legislation written mostly by and for … [Read more...]
Women and Austerity in Ireland: Making the Connections
Overview Bank Guarantee and Massive Socialisation of Bank Debt Cuts to welfare, services, organisations which affect women Regressive taxation Women pushed further into caring roles Ideological coup: obscure the link between gendered … [Read more...]
