Martinez de Hoz (The Dictator’s Economist)
A study I produced on one of the largest robberies by an illegitimate government in pretty much any nation on Earth. Please feel free to download and read by clicking on the download button below…
Political Economics
Corona Gambit, the MiddleGame
Sacrificing truckdrivers, consumers, and its “fucked” manufacturers as pawns, the recently inaugurated tory UK negotiators also risk sacrificing some of its own royalty, its investors. The brinkmanship of this endgame is causing much suffering even as the UK plans to resort to a some last minute retreats
Open Letter to the future Minister for Health 2020-2021
If this latest health crisis taught us anything it is that there is no reason at all for a private health insurance industry, quite the opposite, it is an expensive luxury we can no longer afford.
Ground Zero, Buenos Aires
On the last day of November, 2018 the centre of the city of Buenos Aires was put on lock-down by the police, the military, and the secret services of twenty nations to protect their top government representatives; men and women […]
UNASUR-GRID: Financing Sustainable Energy Sovereignty with the Bank of the South
This is a new book chapter of mine on the use of local finance in South America to integrate national electrical grids into a UNASUR regional electric GRID which moves to 100% renewable inputs. Tony Phillips (2016), UNASUR-GRID: Financing Sustainable […]
TV Interview on living in Argentina
An interview with me as part of a set called “Why Here?” I.e. why have you relocated to Buenos Aires? It is from a few years back, but later aired on TV and now on YouTube
Argentina Versus Argentina versus the World Bank: fair play or fixed fight?
[The ICSID) is] Obscure, that is, outside of Latin America (where the ICSID is referred to as the CIADI for it’s initials in Spanish). While mention of the ICSID in London or New York will likely elicit confused stares, in La Paz or Buenos Aires CIADI could well provoke a string of expletives.
Saint Patrick in Saigon
Corporate city Vietnam, 2011: This “Patrick’s” day of ritualized alcohol consumption has long since become dissociated from the mythical man who gave this day his name. Patrick was a Roman Britain who wandered dangerously close to the edge of empire […]
Bailout, Intervention and Political Collapse
150 protestors shouting “Cowen, Cowen, Cowen, Out, Out, Out” pushed open the gates of Government Buildings in Dublin on Nov. 22nd after a 100Bn. Euro [1] bailout and IMF intervention the day before. Avoiding answering allegations of his own involvement, […]
Speaking Truthiness to the Irish Times
The Irish Times “Opinion” section has spoken. It welcomes the IMF to Ireland. Maybe the Irish Times should ask Latin America why they decided to pay back all of their debt to the IMF so as to kick their consultants […]