This issue the OT locks horns with one of the libertarian movement’s most eminent ethical thinkers – Professor Tibor Machan of the Argyros School of Business and Ethics, Chapman University, California, whose views can be found on his blog, A Passion for Liberty. Whilst Prof Machan’s views are provocative, and many […]
Reaping the Whirlwind: Nigel Lawson and the ’80s Roots of the Economic Crisis – The OT is given a tour of Britain’s political ruins by Robin Ramsay, editor and publisher of Lobster Magazine and author of The Rise of New Labour. The Occupied Times: If you were to pick one event […]
Visionary economist Harry Shutt, author of ‘Beyond the Profits System: Possibilities for a post-capitalist era’, tells it how he sees it to The Occupied Times. Occupied Times: Tell us about the situation in Greece – are we seeing a corporate takeover? Harry Shutt: In Greece, the global financial ‘syndicate’ (including […]
The Occupied Times pokes the corpse of Keynesianism with eauntrepreneur and precious metals guru, Turd Ferguson, editor of tfmetalsreport.com OCCUPIED TIMES: You say that we’re witnessing “the end of the Great Keynesian Experiment”, what exactly do you mean? TURD FERGUSON: To me, Keynesianism is an idea that you can centrally control an […]
The Occupied Times meets leading non-orthodox economist, David Ruccio, Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. His Occasional Links & Commentary blog can be found at www.anticap.Wordpress.com. OT: You’ve been following Occupy Wall Street, what are your thoughts on it so far? DR: My first reaction was: […]
This week we talk tax with accountant Richard Murphy from The Tax Justice Network (www.taxjustice.net) and author of the book, The Courageous State. The Occupied Times: In a nutshell, what is a tax haven? Richard Murphy: I call tax havens ‘ secrecy jurisdictions’. Secrecy jurisdictions are places that intentionally create […]
The Occupied Times talks to star of the movie ‘COLLAPSE’, Mike Ruppert, about the economics of survival. OCCUPIED TIMES: What do the nex2 months hold? MIKE RUPPERT: 12 months? We need to focus on the next 12 weeks. That may be all the time we have to press for change before chaos […]
The Occupied Times picks over the carcass of the Eurozone with Matt Lynn: Columnist for Bloomberg News and Marketwatch, thriller writer and author of ‘Bust: Greece, The Euro and The Sovereign Debt Crisis’. OCCUPIED TIMES: So Matt, is there any life left in the euro? MATT LYNN: It’s game over. […]
The Occupied Times meets James G. Rickards, geo-politician and author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis. OCCUPIED TIMES: What’s happening in the world economy now? Is it a convulsion, or the death throes? JAMES G. RICKARDS: We are not at the death throes yet. We are at the stage […]
This week, the Occupied Times buys an international phonecard and rings Walter E. Williams, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, one of America’s most distinguished economists and a longtime champion of racial equality. OCCUPIED TIMES: Professor, you can wave a magic wand – what economic changes do you make? […]