Ewald Engelen

Donald Trump’s agressieve deregulering van de financiële sector wekt aan deze kant van de oceaan naast grote verontwaardiging ook een hoop leedvermaak. We lijken echter een blinde vlek te hebben als het gaat over schimmige financiële constructies en onverantwoordelijk beleid van onze eigen overheid.

Gastauteur

In their series on securitization, Ewald Engelen and Anna Glasmacher fear that a revived market for the product would only fuel asset bubbles. Today, Paul Tang, member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA), shares the other side of the story.

Ewald Engelen

Ewald Engelen watched the livestream of last week’s hearing on the European Commision’s Capital Markets Union and concludes that Paul Tang, rapporteur on the proposal to kickstart the European market for repackaged mortages, has upped the ante after his initial response, has thereby seriously annoyed bankers and their political backers, faces an uphill battle in learning the lessons of the crisis seriously and therefore deserves all the support he can get.

Ewald Engelen

Ewald Engelen and Anna Glasmacher call upon members of European Parliament to wake up and block the return of bankers' paradise before it is too late. The 'Capital Markets Union' envisioned by the European Commission only reproduces the status-quo of an unsustainable financial oligopoly that sustains the few at the expense of the many.