By Michael Roberts Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive. Just as he did when
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By Michael Roberts Germany holds a snap election on Sunday and the current coalition government of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and the Free Democrats (FDP)

By Michael Roberts The US consumer price inflation reached 3% year-on-year in January 2025. Energy prices rose for the first time in five months and

By Michael Roberts In an important new development, the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma has launched a new Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE). Led by Clara

By Michael Roberts The picture at the top of the article is of Michael Pettis, the US professor who has put forward his arguments in

By Michael Roberts Over the weekend President Donald Trump announced a batch of tariff increases on US imports of goods from the closest partners of

By Michael Roberts Most readers will know the news by now. DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released an AI model called R1 that is comparable

By Michael Roberts Every January, the World Economic Forum (WEF) convenes in the luxury ski resort of Davos, Switzerland. This year, as usual, some 3,000

Corridor treatment now normal: we need to save the NHS!
By Steve McKenzie, UNITE Community member A recent RCN report identified that patients are dying unnecessarily as a result of corridor care that is being

By Michael Roberts Empirical evidence on economic inequality has mushroomed in the last two decades. I refer here to economic inequality (income and wealth) as