Policy entrepreneur
Do you know Götz Werner? In case you don’t, Werner is a very famous entrepreneur in Germany. He founded the drugstore chain dm-drogerie markt, which he led for 35 years. He is also a influent advocate of the unconditional basic income, and most of all a brillant and heterodox thinker.
» Read moreJust a quick update on this blog in order to highlight one very worrisome (and little discussed) fact about the Greek crisis: the plunge of the money supply.
» Read moreBeing busy with my projects, I’m not posting very much these days. So here is a quick roundup of warning signs I’m looking in my radar.
» Read moreDespite fearful speeches, the global economy might never collapse entirely. Rather than any sort of endgame, there is a strong possibilty of being slowly but surely plunging into a slow-motion crisis that may not end in the near future. Here is why.
» Read moreI am pleased to announce the launch of ouishare.net, the media platform of the OuiShare community, for which I will be the editor in chief of the French version. You will find on it our highlights of the collaborative economy both in French and English, as well as our analyses of socio-economic changes underway.
» Read moreWhy should pirate parties claim for an unconditional basic income? Because the philosophy behind is similar to the one of the free culture defended by the “pirates”.
» Read moreWhen talking about money and more specifically on the gold standard, there should be a “golden rule”. Not a time limit, just something simple like: every participant in such a debate must disclose how much gold (or silver) he owns.
» Read moreWhile the eurogroup welcomed Spain’s demand for a European aid to recapitalize its banking system, and guaranteed a commitment up to 100 bn euros, another solution could be put in place for recapitalizing the spanish banking system : the bail-in.
» Read moreWhile everyone is talking about Grexit, and all eyes are looking at Spain, more and more Irish people find it hard to repay their mortgages, which is a very bad sign of the inexistence of any sustainable recover of the irish economy.
» Read moreIs there a bank run on the Spanish banks? According to El Mundo, Bankia’s customers did withdraw 1bn euros on a single day last week (the information was then denied by spanish officials). True or not, these allegations are a good opportunity to have a look on the long-term evolution of the deposits in Spain.
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