Podcasts about eurozone crisis

The Chinese are backing the Argentinian claims to the Falklands, with hot anti-colonialist rhetoric. With America still neutral, is Britain heading towards a Suez two-point oh moment? And perhaps more importantly: have we reached a sinister new milestone in the multipolar era – where old colonial grievances become brand new proxy wars?Back in Britain, the Bank of England are looking to re-bottle the inflation genie with another big rate hike. Are they being too aggressive? When it comes to destroying the British economy, do they just need to finish the job the government started? Finally, for decades Germans have lived by the schwarze null: the so-called Black Zero of a balanced budget. Meanwhile, the likes of Italy lived by the red billion. With interest rates spiking, and a new kind of Eurozone crisis brewing, are we about to see the continuation of what is effectively a culture war across the beer/wine line?

The UK economy is not having a great year with 40 year high inflation, the Bank of England predicting a recession, and three different prime ministers within the span so 3 months. So what is going on and what does the future hold?

Tar maskinerna våra jobb? I samhällsdebatten har det blivit ett faktum att jobben försvinner på grund av automatiseringen. Men nu kommer kritiken. Aaron Benanav och Jason E Smith hävdar i sina böcker att vi lever i en produktivitetsparadox: trots automatiseringen ökar inte produktiviteten i produktionen. Avindustrialiseringen och jobben som försvinner gör det av andra skäl än ny teknik. Hur förändrar det en radikal samhällsstrategi för att ge ett trovärdigt framtidsprojekt? Vad innebär det för accelerationismen, den helautomatiska lyxkommunismen, ekomodernismen, teknopopulismen och Green new deal-politiken som vänstern lyft fram? Vilka subjekt kan genomföra en förändring om industrijobben minskar? Dave från Centrum för marxistiska samhällsstudier Stockholm gästar podden och diskuterar dessa frågor. Läs mer: Red may: Smart machines and service work med Jason E Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb8I1E0VKpo The Dig: Don't blame the robots - med Aaron Benanav https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1043245989/the-dig/dont-blame-robots-with-aaron-benanav Aufhebunga bunga: It's Not Robots, It's Capitalism med Aaron Benanav och Liz Pancotti https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/149-its-not-robots-its-capitalism-ft-aaron-benanav/id1229278776?i=1000492333411 Scocconomics, Avsnitt: "Trickle down" & "Trickle up" https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/935202361/scocconomics/trickle-up E. Brynjolfsson & A. McAfee, The Second Machine Age (2014), W. W. Norton & Company. M. Ford, Rise of the Robots (2016), Basic Books. A. Benenav, Automation and the Future of Work (2020), Verso. J. Smith, Smart Machines and Service Work (2020), Reaktion Books. P. Cockshott & D. Zachariah, Conservation Laws, Financial Entropy and the Eurozone Crisis (2014), E-conomics https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2014-5/html

Will the European Union learn the right lessons from the vaccine fiasco?   Does Britain’s phenomenal success mark a triumph for the free market?   What could the impact be on UK GDP if we reopen three months earlier than nations on the continent? And could the EU’s slow reawakening ignite a second eurozone crisis?   On the panel: Julian Jessop, independent economist Mark Littlewood, IEA Director General (Chair) Matthew Lynn, financial journalist and author   Read Matthew's recent Telegraph article on the topic here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021...​

The Eurointelligence teams discusses US election mayhem and the next eurozone crisis.

EN - Follow-up interview with University of Athens economist and professor Yanis Varoufakis, discussing the economic crisis in Greece and the Eurozone. Aired November 10, 2011.

In this episode Patricia Pino interviews Chiara Zoccarato, a socialist activist from Patria and Costituzione. A committed MMT advocate, Chiara explains the current stand off between Italy’s new right wing government and the European Commission, and the economic and political implications of the Eurozone spending restrictions. 

Social Europe Current Affairs Editor Alexander Schellinger talks to Adam Tooze of Columbia University about the Euro and Germany's Role in the Eurozone Crisis. The euro is unfinished business, and not only because its banking and fiscal unions remain incomplete but, more importantly, because it still raises serious questions about democratic legitimacy at a time when democracies are under ever-growing pressure. Adam Tooze's new book Crashed offers an account of the euro crisis that makes the reader wonder whether the single currency was saved at the expense of democracy and ultimately whether it was saved at all.

Mark Copelovitch is an associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and studies the politics of international trade, money, and finance. He joins the show today to discuss the politics of the global recession and the Eurozone Crisis. David and Mark dive deep into these topics, as they examine how policymakers failed during the Great Recession, and how effects of the Eurozone crisis varied across Europe. They also discuss whether the recent Italian elections can be viewed as a consequence of Eurozone failures. Mark’s Twitter: @mcopelov Mark’s University of Wisconsin-Madison profile: https://polisci.wisc.edu/people/faculty/mark-copelovitch Related Links: *This Time Should Have Been Different: The Causes and Consequences of Macroeconomic Policy Failure in the Great Recession* by Mark Copelovitch https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3059991 *The Monetary Policy Origins of the Eurozone Crisis* by David Beckworth https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/Beckworth-Eurozone-Crisis-v1.pdf *A Plan to Save the Euro* by Jeffry Frieden https://voxeu.org/article/plan-save-euro *Going to Extremes: Politics After Financial Crises, 1870–2014* by Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick & Christoph Trebesch https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292116300587 David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth

This conversation explores the highly charged relationship between Greece and Germany at the height of the Eurozone Crisis, 2009-15. Claudia Sternberg (UCL), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Oxford) and Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni (LSE) are in conversation with the European Institute's Uta Staiger to discuss the many ways in which Greeks and Germans represented and often insulted one another in the media, how their self-understanding shifted in the process, and how this in turn affected their respective appraisal of the EU - and that which divides us or keeps us together as Europeans. The conversation takes its departure from the eponymous book, which the three authors brought out with Palgrave in early 2018. https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137547507

Marina Costa Lobo é doutorada em Ciência Política pela Universidade de Oxford e é actualmente Investigadora Principal do Instituto de Ciências Sociais. Conversámos sobre temas como a satisfação dos eleitores com a democracia, o sistema eleitoral português, o financiamento público dos partidos, o papel do Presidente da República, entre outros. Foi uma conversa ultra-interessante, que me permitiu não só perceber melhor o nosso sistema político, e a forma como compara com os de outros países, mas também de que forma é possível melhorá-lo. Um das propostas da convidada, a obrigatoriedade de uma Moção de Censura Construtiva para derrubar um Governo, acaba, por coincidência, de ser utilizada em Espanha; foi o que permitiu a Pedro Sanchez, há uma semana, com o apoio de outros partidos da oposição, tornar-se Primeiro-Ministro. Uma última nota para lembrar que podem tornar-se apoiantes deste projecto, através do Patreon (no site www.patreon.com/quarentaecincograus). Agradeço aos ‘patronos’ João Vítor Baltazar e Ana Mateus pelo apoio generoso. Ligações: Observatório da Qualidade da Democracia: http://www.oqd.ics.ulisboa.pt/ Voto preferencial https://www.publico.pt/2015/12/12/politica/noticia/estudo-mostra-que-portugueses-sabem-usar-voto-preferencial-1717248 http://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/22446 https://www.dn.pt/portugal/interior/a-calculadora-que-estraga-as-reformas-do-sistema-eleitoral-em-portugal-8830097.html Círculos Uninominais https://economiafinancas.com/2014/o-que-sao-circulos-uninominais/ Proponentes https://www.ffms.pt/artigo/393/circulos-uninominais-o-parlamento-e-o-povo https://ionline.sapo.pt/514954?source=social Modelo de sistema eleitoral alemão: https://www.dn.pt/lusa/interior/ribeiro-e-castro-lidera-proposta-de-reforma-do-sistema-eleitoral-inspirada-em-modelo-alemao-9066854.html Moção de Censura Construtiva: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_vote_of_no_confidence Peso do financiamento público dos partidos políticos: https://www.publico.pt/2016/09/23/politica/noticia/financiamento-publico-de-partidos-portugueses-e-dos-mais-altos-1744964 Crescente importância dos líderes partidários em detrimento dos partidos: https://www.publico.pt/2017/11/18/politica/noticia/menos-leais-a-partidos-eleitores-votam-sobretudo-nos-lideres-1792464 Livro recomendado: Ivan Krastev - After Europe: https://www.amazon.com/After-Europe-Ivan-Krastev/dp/0812249437 Biografia detalhada: Marina Costa Lobo é doutorada em Ciência Política pela Universidade de Oxford, com uma tese sobre o Poder do Primeiro-Ministro e o funcionamento do Governo no Portugal democrático. Actualmente é investigadora Principal do Instituto de Ciências Sociais onde desenvolve trabalhos na área das instituições e comportamentos políticos dos portugueses em perspectiva comparada. Tem publicado sobre instituições políticas em Portugal, partidos políticos e a UE, e sobre o impacto dos líderes no comportamento de voto. É core cv Member do Projecto IASPP- Infraestrutura das Atitudes Sociais e Políticas dos Portugueses, projecto financiado pela FCT. No âmbito do projecto sobre Comportamento Eleitoral dos Portugueses, ajudou a elaborar os primeiros inquéritos pós-eleitorais realizados em Portugal - tendo implementado inquéritos desde 2002 até 2015 em todas as eleições legislativas. É coordenadora do Observatório da Qualidade da Democracia no ICS e Presidente da Comissão de Estudos Pós-Graduados. Em 2016 ganhou um Projecto ERC- European Research Council - Consolidator Grant. O título do Projecto é Mapping and Analysing the Politicisation of the EU before and after the Eurozone Crisis. A sua mais recente publicação internacional é o livro organizado com John Curtice, publicado em 2015, intitulado "Personality Politics? Leaders and Democratic Elections", publicado pela Oxford University Press. Em 2016 coordenou uma Consulta aos Cidadãos no âmbito do Observatório da Qualidade da Democracia.

Coulter & Nagle, Eds. On today's episode, we are joined by Colin Coulter, of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Colin is a Lecturer in Sociology, and he has an article out recently in Critical Sociology, co-authored with Francisco Arqueros-Fernández and Angela Nagle, entitled Austerity’s Model Pupil: The Ideological Uses of Ireland during the Eurozone Crisis. As some listeners may know, I have myself been working on a book about the role of culture in Irish austerity. And I’ve always found Colin to be a really great writer on this subject. He has a real knack for seamlessly blending together both analysis of the material dynamics of the Irish financial crisis, with a critique of the role of culture as force sustaining the legitimacy of austerity as the necessary solution. This cultural project is one being carried out by government institutions, to be sure, but also by a number of other cultural agencies that exist within Irish society, as they seek to orient Irish people better to understand their responsibility in causing the crisis. But Colin also has an analysis of how certain strains within the Irish academic left have perhaps enabled this process — namely by overlooking questions to do with the production of capitalist culture. Colin explains the role of capitalist culture in Ireland in a really accessible manner, so its great to have him on the show. I think you’ll really enjoy the interview. You can find a copy of Colin’s article on my Dropbox. Remember, if you like what you hear, please leave us a positive review on iTunes. As ever, if you have any feedback, you can reach us on Twitter @occupyirtheory. Enjoy the show!

Afsnit 7 - Den Økonomiske og Monetære Union - ØMU'en De sidste år har en serie af kriser fået mange til at stille spørgsmålstegn ved EU's fremtid. I denne podcast diskuterer en af Danmarks førende EU-eksperter, professor Peter Nedergaard, unionens fortid, nutid og fremtid. Euro-samarbejdet går i høj grad ud på, at man skal have prisstabilitet, stabile rentesatser og undgå for store budgetunderskud. Hvem overholder kravene? For ikke alle har været lige gode gennem tiden. Det skyldes selvfølgelig finanskrisen, der udløste eurokrisen. Det græsk-tyske ægteskab vendes, og er euroen robust til at overleve endnu en krise? I serien taler Nedergaard med Viktor Bournonville (vært på afsnit 7) og Loke Bisbjerg Nielsen, og besvarer i hvert afsnit spørgsmål fra en række udfordrere - i dette afsnit 7 er der spørgsmål fra Jan E. Jørgensen (EU-ordfører for Venstre) og Center for Vild Analyse. Serien er lavet i anledning af et kursus, hvor følgende litteratur har været tilknyttet dette afsnit: - Wallace, Pollack og Young: Policy-Making in the European Union, Oxford University Press, side 166-195. - Nedergaard og Snaith: 'As I Drifted on a River I Could Not Control': The Unintended Ordoliberal Consequences of the Eurozone Crisis. Journal of Common Market Studies . - Nedergaard: The Influence of Ordoliberalism in European Integration Processes - A Framework for Ideational Influence with Competition Policy and the Economic and Monetary Policy as Examples: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de /52331/1/MPRA_paper_52331.pdf.

I sit down with Josep Nadal to talk about the Eurozone Crisis, what led to it, what its effects on the global economy are, and what we might expect to see as a result of it in the future...so generally light chit chat. We delve into the complexities of the history of the EU, the Euro Zone, and the seeds of the crisis in part one of two about the Euro Zone Crisis.

The NYU Department of Sociology Presents: "Internationalism and Democracy after the Eurozone Crisis" Monday, January 30thSince 2008, Europe has been mired in an institutional and political crisis that shows no signs of abating. If the 2008 financial meltdown shook the Eurozone to its foundations, the combination of austerity and the uneven recovery of member-states in its wake has once again brought questions of sovereignty and democracy to the fore. The consequence has been a series of escalating conflicts over Europe's future, exemplified by the tensions that surrounded the imposition of drastic austerity measures on the populations of Greece, Italy, and Spain, and by last summer's "Brexit" vote in the UK. Meanwhile, in many countries, growing hostility to the EU has fueled the rise of xenophobic and Euroskeptic forces on the far right, as parties like the French National Front have managed to gain traction with nationalist appeals that stress opposition to global financial elites, immigrants, and Islam. In this context, debates over the trajectory of economic and political governance in Europe have taken on a new urgency. This event features of France's leading left-wing social scientists and "public intellectuals" discussing the roots of the present crisis, the response of the social movements, and the implications for democratic politics. Using the experience of post-2008 mobilizations against austerity across Europe - and last spring's Nuit Debout protests in France in particular - they ask what a viable left strategy for dealing with the crisis might look like. To what extent are internationalism and democracy still compatible in the era of European integration? And what does the crisis signify about the future of the national state, at a time when the growing salience of exclusionary nationalism has spurred a steady rise in support for the far right? Speaker Bios: Frédéric Lordon is an economist and philosopher. He is Director of Research at France's National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a researcher at the Center for European Sociology (CSE). He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire (2014), La Malfaçon: Monnaie Européenne et Souveraineté Démocratique (2014), and Imperium - Structures et Affects des Corps Politique (2015). Last year, Lordon was a prominent figure associated with France's Nuit Debout protest movement. He writes a regular column on European politics and the Eurozone crisis for Le Monde Diplomatique. Cédric Durand is an associate professor of economics at the University of Paris 13, a member of the Center for Economy at Paris-Nord, and a researcher with the Center for the Study of Industrialization (CEMI-EHESS). He is on the editorial board of the journal Revue d'Économie Industrielle and the online magazine ContreTemps. He is author of the forthcoming book Fictitious Capital: How Finance is Appropriating Our Future (Verso 2017). English translations of several of his recent writings are available at the Verso Books website, https://www.versobooks.com/authors/2178-cedric-durand

George Glynos, Managing Director at ETM Analytics looks at South Africa's Q3 GDP data expected out today, crisis potentially brewing in the Eurozone following the Italian referendum, banks need recapitalisation and next week will see the US raise interest rates, they will be doing so very late in the business cycle

Lars Christensen, an internationally renowned Danish economist and Senior Fellow at London’s Adam Smith Institute, discusses the poor monetary policy that has plagued the Eurozone. Christensen, the coiner of the term “market monetarism,” argues that Europe from the beginning was not an optimal region for its members to share a single currency and that the European Central Bank’s decisions have greatly worsened the Eurozone’s economic pain. This suffering, consequently, has led to the rise of extremist movements throughout the region. Lars and David also turn their conversation to the lesser-known “dollar bloc,” the group of countries that either use the U.S. dollar or peg their currencies to the dollar. David's blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com Lars Christensen’s blog: https://marketmonetarist.com David’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidBeckworth Lars Christensen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaMoMVPY

Talking about #Stress and the outside causes #economics, #living conditions and all things connected. Quoting from a very interesting study by #Stuart Holland (UK), #James K. Galbraith (US) and #Yanis Varoufakis (Greece) called #A modest proposal for resolving the #Eurozone #crisis. This show is broadcast live on W4CY Radio – (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).

Snap elections are being held in Greece later this month in which the radical left Syriza party is expected to come out on top. Gideon Rachman is joined by Kerin Hope, Athens correspondent, and Tony Barber, Europe Editor, to discuss the implications for Greek debt restructuring and the eurozone. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This paper analyses the political economy of the Hollande Presidency in France, evaluating the economic policies pursued by the French Socialist President since May 2012. It explains the limited coherence and success of economic policy under Hollande in terms of constraints operating at domestic and European levels, and through credibility concerns of financial markets. Domestically, it highlights difficulties managing the presidential majority, notably due to presidentialised factionalism within French Socialism. At the European level it explores disagreements within the Franco-German relationship over which economic ideas should underpin macroeconomic policies to tackle Europe’s recession and efforts to resolve the Eurozone crisis.

On Thursday 31st October 2013, Professor Spyridon Flogaitis of the University of Athens spoke at an event held at Wolfson College in association with the Wolfson Law Society.

On Thursday 31st October 2013, Professor Spyridon Flogaitis of the University of Athens spoke at an event held at Wolfson College in association with the Wolfson Law Society.

On Thursday 31st October 2013, Professor Spyridon Flogaitis of the University of Athens spoke at an event held at Wolfson College in association with the Wolfson Law Society.

Nancy Marion, Associate Dean of Faculty for the Social Sciences and George J. Records 1956 Professor of Economics The Eurozone countries face three separate crises—a banking crisis, a sovereign debt crisis, and a growth crisis. Policymakers face a dilemma because efforts to alleviate one crisis can worsen the others. Policymakers also recognize that real progress in resolving the Eurozone crises may require a level of cost sharing among member countries that is difficult to achieve politically. (vs. Bucknell)

On Monday 24th June, Dr Savvas Papassavvas, Vice-president of the General Court of the EU, spoke on "State Sovereignty and Euro-decline in the Aftermath of the Economic Crisis" as a guest at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law. This seminar was arranged by Professor David Feldman and Professor Spyridon Flogaitis as part of the LL.M. course on The Birth, Development and Afterlife of States, and introduced by Professor Flogaitis.

On Monday 24th June, Dr Savvas Papassavvas, Vice-president of the General Court of the EU, spoke on "State Sovereignty and Euro-decline in the Aftermath of the Economic Crisis" as a guest at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law. This seminar was arranged by Professor David Feldman and Professor Spyridon Flogaitis as part of the LL.M. course on The Birth, Development and Afterlife of States, and introduced by Professor Flogaitis.

On Monday 24th June, Dr Savvas Papassavvas, Vice-president of the General Court of the EU, spoke on "State Sovereignty and Euro-decline in the Aftermath of the Economic Crisis" as a guest at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law. This seminar was arranged by Professor David Feldman and Professor Spyridon Flogaitis as part of the LL.M. course on The Birth, Development and Afterlife of States, and introduced by Professor Flogaitis.

On Monday 24th June, Dr Savvas Papassavvas, Vice-president of the General Court of the EU, spoke on "State Sovereignty and Euro-decline in the Aftermath of the Economic Crisis" as a guest at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law. This seminar was arranged by Professor David Feldman and Professor Spyridon Flogaitis as part of the LL.M. course on The Birth, Development and Afterlife of States, and introduced by Professor Flogaitis.

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Prof Wendy Carlin, UCL Economics There was plenty of scepticism among economists about the likely success of a common currency in Europe. The immediate problem is that peripheral countries have seen their public sectors incur large deficits and incautious private sectors incur large debts. In addition, wages in the Southern economies have grown more rapidly, and productivity more slowly, than in the North. This lecture sets out the risks this poses to full political union and explore whether there is a solution. UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Faculty lecture by Aaron Tornell, UCLA, Economics.

In episode #182, Wolfgang Münchau discusses the current state of the Eurozone crisis and potential resolutions. He explains potential implications of a breakup and the costs and benefits to various countries across the region.

The severity of the Eurozone crisis is spreading to Eastern Europe, states Daniel Tarling-Hunter, Economist at Euromonitor, with Eastern Europe impacted in three ways. First, the area is financially tied to the Eurozone; therefore the slowdown of Western financial output is hampering growth in the east as well. Exports are also being affected, as the European Union is a massive exporting sector for Eastern Europe. Finally, consumer confidence is fading in Eastern Europe as a result of spreading fears throughout the entire continent.

Peugeot S.A., or PSA, the manufactures of Peugeot and Citroen vehicles, recently announced that it would be cutting over 8,000 jobs and closing down a plant near Paris in 2014. Neil King, automotive industry analyst at Euromonitor, states that the Eurozone debt crisis is mostly to blame for PSA's plans, but other car manufactures are also encroaching on PSA's territory, giving consumers alternate choices when buying automobiles. King states that PSA may want to consider entering global markets, as many of its competitors have done.

Trapped in a vicious cycle of fragile banks, economic contraction, and a yawning budget deficit, Spain's government is now under criticism fror its handling of the crisis at Bankia, the country's third-largest lender. So is Spain the new front line in the eurozone sovereign debt crisis? FT correspondents Miles Johnson in Madrid and Peter Spiegel in Brussels join Ben Hall to discuss. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

DOWNLOAD HEREPOSITIVE POLITICS PODCAST EPISODE 3: THE EUROZONE CRISIS.In this episode, Joel and Neil explore the current Eurozone crisis. They hear from Tiana, a Greek state employee, about the horrific social disaster being wreaked on Greek society by the political leaders and banks of France and Germany. They then here from Prof Alex Callinicos about how the Greek people are faced with two choices: a default from above - continue this unbearable pain and have a chaotic default imposed - or a default from below - take immediate pain now, but begin the process of healing and regaining sovereignty. Dr Claes Belfrage tells us about how the Icelandic people did say 'no' to the 'markets', but also how the left-wing government which came to power after the bankruptcy has struggled to implement a progressive agenda, how the left has struggled to unite, and how entrenched reactionary forces have regrouped. Finally, James Meadway tells us how at the heart of this battle between financial capital and European people is a struggle for democracy itself.TRACKLISTING:Rebel Diaz - Which Side Are You On?Faith No More - We Care A LotRaphael Saddiq - Go To Hell

Will your pension be reduced and what can you do about it? How safe are your savings - if they're only protected by the European safety scheme? And will your mortgage rise - even if the UK interest rates are cut? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Stefan Molyneux is interviewed on TNS Radio about European public debt, the shattering of the European economic Union, and the endless fiscal failures of Western democracies. Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

A directed discussion with Barry Eichengreen, UC Berkeley, Economics and Political Science. Discussants: Ivan Berend, UCLA, History and Edward Leamer, UCLA, Economics.

It's bash-a-banker time. As the former RBS boss Fred Goodwin loses his knighthood, his successor at the bank has handed back his bonus. Nils Pratley and Jill Treanor discuss

Professors Akila Weerapana and Joseph Joyce (Economics) join Rebecca Braeu, macroeconomic analyst and portfolio manager at Standish Mellon Asset Management, in discussing the history of the eurozone, its position during the recent global financial crisis, and the potential future of the euro.

--{ End of an Era Getting Nearer: "There's a Spate of Government Moral Depravity, As "Civilized" Nations Go Down the Lavatory, Federal and Local Gangs Racketeering, Plundering Elderly and Profiteering, The War on Islam Will Go On for Years As the Pretext to Play Upon Our Fears And Give All Obedience to the Totalitarian, Be He Left, Right, Fascist or Fabian, There's No Point Appealing to Morality, To the Lotus Eating Hedonistic Mentality, Carefully Instilled Over the Last Generation, By the Culture Industry's TV Persuasion" © Alan Watt }-- PR Hearings for the Public on MF Global and Goldman Sachs - Use of Eurozone Crisis to Further Integrate Europe, Centralize Banking - Public Overloaded with Data, Cannot Reason for Themselves - Permanent State of Terrorism - TSA Strip-Searches of Children and Elderly - Training Exercises to Obey Authority - Clinton and Presidential Memorandum on LGBT Rights - Racketeering by Code Enforcement Officers - Education Designed to Dumb-Down - Employees Treated like Criminals - Flu Shots Coming to Your Church - Black Market Organ Trafficking, Gangs - Cities of the Future for Workers (Slums), Gated Communities for Middle Classes - Think-Tank Projections up to Year 2050. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 9, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Jeffrey Sachs discusses the turmoil in the eurozone, the ethical issues underlying the financial crisis and his new book The Price of Civilisation

Philip Coggan, a historian of debt crises, discusses the current turmoil in Europe and explores the nature of money itself and our changing attitudes to it – most money now exists only on computers and the only thing that sustains it is confidence

In the week of a nationwide strike over pension changes, Tim Harford explains how the government can make public sector pensions sound generous, at the same time the unions can make them sound small. And he finds out why a Greek national statistician is under suspicion of committing crimes against numbers. Plus, is it really true that there are more Porsche Cayenne owners than tax payers declaring an income of more than 55,000 euros in Greece? Also, are affordable homes affordable? And can the whole world fit on the Isle of Wight? Tim tries to cram his studio full of Radio 4 presenters and producers to test the theory.

In this RUSI Analysis podcast, we turn East to China, lately the focus of European financial hopes. Europe's leaders recently asked China to buy European Financial Stability Fund bonds, a move they hoped would bail Europe out of the financial crisis. But it seems not to have worked, so far. Alexander Neill, RUSI's Senior Research Fellow for Asia Studies discusses the significance of the request and its potential outcomes.

In this week’s show: after a week in which the prospect of a country leaving the eurozone has been floated, where do we go from here? We look at the possibility of closer political and fiscal union in the eurozone, the state of relations between Germany and the UK, and the prospects for a financial transaction tax. Presented by the FT’s chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman, with economics editor Chris Giles and Berlin bureau chief Quentin Peel. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Risk-weighted assets and how banks are trying to optimise their risk weightings. How banks account for the valuation of their own debt, which has been a big boost for to some banks’ quarterly profits. Also: Italy and how banks are coping with the eurozone crisis. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Buccola spoke eloquently about Occupy Wall Street while standing in the rain at Zuccotti Park. He says this is what we've been waiting for, a viral mass movement with no leaders.    OWS is still growing in NYC, with a really big protest planned for Nov. 17. On Tuesday night, several got arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience at Occupy Sotheby's in solidarity with locked-out Teamsters. In another event, OWS learned of a tenement in Harlem owned by a slumlord. It had a broken boiler. He refused to fix it. They occupied the building until the boiler was repaired. Homeless people are joining in, and sometimes getting off drugs and alcohol too. On Wednesday night, two people were arrested for dancing on the sidewalk (?). Last night, dozens danced on the sidewalks and streets as large contingents of police followed them.    If you want to do something at OWS, just do it. That's the message. And it really is run by genuine principles of democracy.   We talked about OWS for 45 minutes. Give a listen. This is from someone who is there and participating in it.   After David went to dry off, Keith and I concluded with discussion about the insanity of bombing Iran, penn State protecting the institution at all costs, and the continuing tragi-comedy in the Eurozone.

David Buccola spoke eloquently about Occupy Wall Street while standing in the rain at Zuccotti Park. He says this is what we've been waiting for, a viral mass movement with no leaders.    OWS is still growing in NYC, with a really big protest planned for Nov. 17. On Tuesday night, several got arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience at Occupy Sotheby's in solidarity with locked-out Teamsters. In another event, OWS learned of a tenement in Harlem owned by a slumlord. It had a broken boiler. He refused to fix it. They occupied the building until the boiler was repaired. Homeless people are joining in, and sometimes getting off drugs and alcohol too. On Wednesday night, two people were arrested for dancing on the sidewalk (?). Last night, dozens danced on the sidewalks and streets as large contingents of police followed them.    If you want to do something at OWS, just do it. That's the message. And it really is run by genuine principles of democracy.   We talked about OWS for 45 minutes. Give a listen. This is from someone who is there and participating in it.   After David went to dry off, Keith and I concluded with discussion about the insanity of bombing Iran, penn State protecting the institution at all costs, and the continuing tragi-comedy in the Eurozone.

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Just when we thought the eurozone crisis was entering its final stages, the decision by Greece to hold a referendum on the bailout threw a spanner in the works. Once again volatility has been the theme of the week, with developments and rumour surrounding Greece overshadowing the G20 summit.

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