Days of Revolt : How we got Junk Economics - Michael Hudson interviewed by Chris Hedges

ECB Announces New Measures, and More

Asset purchase programmes

Expanded asset purchase programme

The expanded asset purchase programme (APP) adds the purchase programme for public sector securities to the existing private sector asset purchase programmes to address the risks of a too prolonged period of low inflation. It consists of

• third covered bond purchase programme (CBPP3)
• asset-backed securities purchase programme (ABSPP)
• public sector purchase programme (PSPP)

Monthly purchases in public and private sector securities will amount to €60 billion.

They are intended to be carried out until the end of March 2017 and in any case until the Governing Council sees a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation that is consistent with its aim of achieving inflation rates below, but close to, 2% over the medium term.

SEE ALSO: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4795276789001/ecb-moves-not-solving-europes-problems/?#sp=show-clips

Political Economy Research says buying Corporate Bonds is subsidising the rich and more cheap money for Banks is not helping small businesses and individuals but recapitalising Banks.

We also agree with Brian Denny of No2EU who says if you want to see what ECB solutions to financial insolvency looks like, study the strict conditions imposed on bailout countries such as Greece, Cyprus and other states. 

These include mass privatisation, abolition of trade union rights, pay cuts, vicious government spending cuts and massive structural adjustment in favour of monopoly capital.

As the left-wing Cypriot party AKEL pointed out the people of Cyprus are paying a very heavy price for the “solidarity” of its so-called friends

“The policies of the single economic governance on an EU level are destroying the sovereignty of the peoples and states for the sake of the interests of big capital,” he said.

Brian Denny is spokesman for No2EU.com

2016 Bank Bail Ins - Financial Crisis

BANK OF ENGLAND SUMMARY

There are a number of misconceptions about bail-in. The
article concludes by explaining how bail-in:

• is not an alternative term for contingent capital
instruments;

• does not interfere unduly with shareholder and creditor
property rights;

• is unlikely to be a cause of contagion to the wider
financial system; and

• is not, by itself, the silver bullet that ends ‘too big to
fail’


SEE ALSO:

BANK OF ENGLAND ARTICLE ON BAIL INS

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarterlybulletin/2015/q302.pdf

UK ECONOMY 
http://democracyandclassstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/the-wilting-uk-economy.html

Richard Werner speaking in Moscow on Central Bank Issue

Russian Academy of Sciences, Blue Room

Round table "Anti-crisis fiscal policy of the state in the interests of economic development of Russia".

The main report "To a new understanding of the function of the banking sector: the mechanism of productive credit creation and quantitative easing" was delivered by Professor Richard Werner, a leading international expert on central banks, the author of the idea of ​​"quantitative easing."

Moderator of the event - Vladimir Yakunin, President of Russian Railways.

Political Economy Research finds this presentation by Richard Werner in Moscow to be a very useful summary of dissonance between reality and bourgeois Political Economy in 21st century