“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group.” – Franklin D Roosevelt [Source: Think Exist]
Is bitcoin a financial revolution that can democratise trading or is it an unsustainable economic bubble similar to 'Tulipmania' and the dot com crash of the 1990s? David Grossman reports for BBC Newsnight.
Lord Mervyn King was governor of the Bank of England at the time of the financial crisis. He joins Evan Davis from New York to discuss its long-term ramifications, and how he thinks the government is handling Brexit.
Angesichts von Spaltungstendenzen in Europa hat EU-Kommissionspräsident Jean-Claude Juncker eine Ausweitung der Eurozone und des Schengenraums gefordert. "Wenn wir wollen, dass der Euro unseren Kontinent mehr eint als spaltet, dann sollte er mehr sein, als die Währung einer ausgewählten Ländergruppe", sagte der Luxemburger Christdemokrat am Mittwoch vor dem Europaparlament in Straßburg. Der Euro sei dazu bestimmt, die "einheitliche Währung der Europäischen Union als Ganzes zu sein".
Thousands of people have taken to the streets across France to protest against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to make the country's laws more flexible.
A day of strikes and demonstrations was launched by France's biggest trade union, the CGT, on Tuesday opposing Macron's reforms, which are intended to tackle high unemployment by loosening the rules that govern how businesses hire and fire staff.
Big Picture Interview: Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown/Democracy At Work. White supremacy reared it's ugly head last weekend in Charlottesville - Virginia - and one brave American ended up dead. Thankfully - we are not living in Nazi Germany -- not yet, at least -- but the threat that white supremacy and fascism pose to our democracy is real -- especially as Reaganomics continues to tear apart what remains of our middle class.
General election campaign is in full swing in Germany but little attention is being paid to the high proportion of working poor explains economist Heiner Flassbeck.
Janan Ganesh, the FT's chief political commentator, and Miranda Green, political columnist, discuss the future of Britain and the latest Brexit developments
Nicolas Mackel is the Chief Executive of Luxembourg for Finance, the country's trade promotion body, and he speaks to Ian King about the EU view of the ongoing Brexit talks.
