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The people at NECSI sent me the following interesting blurb on the relationship between rise food prices and social unrest

Anti-Euro MP Nigel Farage says the troika's economic policy in Greece is moving that country toward a violent revolution.

I am not particularly shocked or worried about the cancelled European finance ministers meeting. I still think this bailout gets done because Europe and the markets are not prepared for a disorderly default and politicians cannot risk the…

This is the reaction to the latest austerity measures proposed for Greece.

This is how it's going down in Greece right now. The sentiment is very Anti-German on the eve of the austerity/bailout decision. The debt haircut and writedowns coming of upwards of 50% is a default in everything but name. Technical default…

Enemies of freedom will always tell you that there is some trade-off between freedom and civil liberties to get you to give up your freedom. This is a false dichotomy and always will be.

Since the possibility of further social tensions leading to nationalism is something on my radar screen, I thought I would post these videos from Euronews. In a good economy, these issues are nothing to get concerned about. But in a bad…

A post about the job guarantee idea in the context of a historic economic crisis.

This appropriation of the economic surplus to pay bankers is turning the traditional values of most Europeans upside down. Imposition of economic austerity, dismantling social spending, sell-offs of public assets, de-unionization of labor,…

Financial news links for 6 December 2011 featuring stories on MF Global, Facebook, class divides and retail sales.