‘Sound Finance’ Imperilling Democracy | by EPW

What if debt deflation strikes, will the Eurozone’s financial elite still bay for sound finance? Finance capital’s imposition of fiscal austerity on both sides of the Atlantic – and this at a time when private consumption and investment are stagnating – is pushing the...

News Briefs | Amandla Issue 22/23

Rendition South Africa styleSenior officials in the Hawks and SA Police Service are conducting illegal ‘renditions’ of Zimbabweans, who are deported from South Africa, handed to Zimbabwean security forces and then murdered. Rendition is the illegal kidnapping and...

Economic policy PR without scruples

Originally in Business Day, 2012-03-05 Adcorp’s method of measuring employment “generates such massive employment levels that it does away with SA’s unemployment problem in one fell swoop, lowering the unemployment rate to around 5%”, write Dr Kerr and...