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Increasing Protests in Spain as Forced Evictions Continue to Rise Do Egyptians Really Want IMF Money? How to make cash transfers work North Korea: On the net in world’s most secretive nation Today’s Best Companies are Horizontally Integrated Happy reading!

The “People’s Bailout” Was Just the Beginning: What’s Next for Strike Debt? ‘Bout to explode: a day in the life of a precarious worker Ireland: The Promissory Note Was Paid Poverty and Perverse Incentives Inside the Risky Bets of Central Banks Happy reading!

Bankers are the new unemployed in Greece The robot economy and the new rentier class The Power of Sharing in the Internet Economy Icelandic Parliament investigating Full Reserve Banking Young and Educated in France Find Employment Elusive Balancing Innovation And Regulation In The Sharing Economy Happy reading!

Sick and disabled braced for enforced work-for-benefits programme Manufacturing: The new maker rules Why does everyone have to work? Increasing numbers of working people live in poverty, report finds The Economically Out-of-Date Nation-State Happy reading!

A Finnish Parallel Currency Is Imaginable Inside the Rolling Jubilee, the First P2P Bailout The world’s ‘poorest’ president in the World Urban Poverty on the Rise in Germany World Sharing Day celebrates collaborative consumption (Guardian) Happy reading!

Is a revolution in economic thinking under way? Why students must demand ‘debt abolition for all’ Why Occupy’s plan to cancel consumer debts is money well spent “In Greece right now, to be unemployed means death” Pathways to a universal basic pension in Greece Happy reading!

Bank of England official: Occupy Movement right IMF’s epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers Is crowdfunding the future for wind farms in the UK? Occupy Movement Rallies for “Debt Strike” Worldwide (Global Voices) From Henry Ford to Joe Justice : WikiSpeed, Manufacturing in the Age of Open Collaboration Why support the undeserving […]

Wanting Meaningful Work Is Not a First World Problem Athens: Social Meltdown (must watch) Ireland gets its reward for being EU’s little pet poodle – nothing The Battle Of Iceland Six (maybe) good arguments for deficits (and one bad) Why Economic Pundits’ Biggest Mantra Is Wrong UK needs to talk about helicopters (FT) Happy reading!

Yes, the collaborative economy is destroying jobs. So what’s next? Will central banks cancel government debt? Lord Turner: Time for helicopter money? Policy makers can learn – by drinking more How finance led to debt servitude (Must read) IMF Shakes Austerity Orthodoxy for New Pragmatism Why the Mainstream Paradigm in Economics and Finance Collapsed Quantitative Easing […]

"Quantitative easing for the people may be another such idea whose time has come" Spain: The Banks Win, the People Lose Mitt Romney and the myth of self-created millionaires Does economic growth make you happy? Special Economic Zones: Sackings expose the harsh reality of Poland’s junk jobs Germany’s ‘post-growth’ movement Theory of Spain’s political class […]