The clandestine role of the Spanish government in a run on deposits that drained €29 billion from Catalan banks… Read More Revealed: The Run on Banks in Catalonia after the Independence Vote was Fomented by Madrid
It is impossible to overstate the importance of tourism to Spain’s economy.… Read More Be Careful What You Wish For: Weak Mass-Tourism Threatens Spain’s Five-Year Economic Recovery
Tourism accounted for a quarter of the jobs created since 2013 — but mass-tourism of this type brings its own problems… Read More Multiyear, Job-Creating, Mass-Tourist Boom in Spain Runs Out of Steam
“These illusionists have altered the nature of the financial system and orchestrated a de facto heist that has enabled the most dominant banks and central bankers to run the world”… Read More Nomi Prins: The Central Banking Heist Has Put the World at Risk
Many of the recent media claims that have caused this standoff, including assertions of Russia’s role in Catalonia’s bid for independence, range from highly dubious to demonstrably false… Read More How Shoddy Reporting and Anti-Russian Propaganda Coerced Ecuador to Silence Julian Assange
“Police violence must not be used against innocent civilians simply exercising their rights”.… Read More Opposing Sides of the Scottish Nationalist Divide Unite to Condemn Spain’s ‘Authoritarian’ Behaviour
A relentless state, angry demonstrations, and profoundly worried businesses.… Read More Playing With Fire in Catalonia
Not only has Rajoy spectacularly failed to defuse the Catalan issue (in fact he’s done more for independence than anyone else on the planet), but his actions have also unearthed Spain’s underlying fascism and Francoism for us all to see.… Read More Dear Spain, Don’t Criticise the International Media. Blame Your Own Government.
The pro-independence leader could face up to 25 years in jail… Read More Catalonia’s Carles Puigdemont Arrested in Germany
Rents up 50% since 2013, wages go nowhere, a third of residents earn less than €1,000/month… Read More Barcelona Rental Market Is Out of Control
If Rajoy thought he would be able to begin 2018 on the front foot, returning Spain to ‘normality and calm’ after the Catalan election that he arranged last month, he was very wrong… Read More Spain’s Constitutional Crisis: No End In Sight
Right at the front of the monetary welfare queue is the government of Italy… Read More ECB Has Spawned Financial Dependency That’s Now Very Hard to Undo
