Standard Poor, Granny Poorer…
by Ralph T. Niemeyer When the Polish EU Presidency and the European Parliament in October 2011 clinched a deal that beefed up standards for…
capitalism
Investment Protection becomes “Human Right”
by Ralph T. Niemeyer Just when Greece is expecting to be handed the next lifeline of €30 billion from the European Union and International…
Internal market and consumer protection/Public health and food safety
MEPs quiz Commissioner-designate Neven Mimica on key consumer priorities by Martha Devon MEPs quizzed Croatian Commissioner-designate Neven Mimica on EU…
Mephisto rules
by Ralph T. Niemeyer Conservatives usually uphold tradition, culture and values but, if Humanism and Classicism are really in their hearts, why could they…
Why not hand over taxpayer’s funds directly to private banks?
by Ralph T. Niemeyer Whatever has been said about Euro-bonds, being rejected by the German government, has been proven illusory by the fact that…
Sachs, Deutsche, Rothschild, HSBC, UBS ruined Greece
by Ralph T. Niemeyer One thing becomes clearer every day: the debts won’t be paid back. nor those of debts Goldman Sachs, Deutsche…
The Great Depression – this time in technicolor
by Ralph T. Niemeyer American banks prepare for the state bankruptcy of the United States of America, the Financial Times writes and suggests…
Globalisation? Which Globalisation?!
100 years ago the World was as “globalised” as nowadays, yet it led to catastrophe by Ralph T. Niemeyer It became fashionable in the…
Not so NYSE
by Ralph T. Niemeyer Despite of two decades of privatisation hysteria and anti-étatistic propaganda the state in general still plays a major…