A review of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, Christopher Leonard (Simon and Schuster), £25 There is nothing better than a crisis when it comes to making money, but only if you are… Continue Reading
On 4 August a massive explosion shook Beirut port when a neglected storehouse of ammonium nitrate blew up, catapulting Lebanon onto the front pages of the global media. The volatile chemical was being stored next to the country’s main grain… Continue Reading
A review of Grace Blakeley, Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation Grace Blakeley (Repeater, 2017), £10.99. Stolen is a very comprehensive and readable account of the roots of financialisation in the 1970s crisis, which ended the “golden age”… Continue Reading