Cashing out the Planet: Ann Pettifor on the Global Casino
Why do our energy bills keep soaring, and our pensions feel increasingly precarious? The planet keeps burning while Wall Street keeps winning.
We are told inflation is an act of nature, green transitions are too expensive, and public belt-tightening is our patriotic duty.
None of it is true.
Join us for an eye-opening evening with Ann Pettifor, the renowned British economist who predicted the 2008 crash two years before it happened, to unpack her book, The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet
Pettifor strips away the confusing jargon of high finance to expose a gutting reality: the essentials of our daily lives (our heating, our food, our retirement pots and the biosphere itself) have been turned into speculative chips in an offshore, unregulated banking game. When energy traders and hedge funds win, they pocket billions. But when their reckless gambles unravel, ordinary citizens and the living earth foot the bill through crippling costs, eroded futures, and ecological ruin.
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