By Michael Roberts Last Friday, the US real GDP growth figures for the second quarter of 2019 were released. The annualised rate of real GDP
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By Michael Roberts This week, we get the first US company reports on earnings for the second quarter of 2019. And it looks as though
By Michael Roberts The joint conference of the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPP), the French Association of Political Economy (AFEP) and
By Michael Roberts Last weekend’s G20 summit in Osaka resolved nothing substantial in the ongoing trade and technology war that the US is now waging
By Michael Roberts Libra is the name that Facebook, the global social network company, is calling its planned international digital currency. What is Facebook’s purpose
By Michael Roberts Last week Martin Wolf, the Financial Times economics journalist, listed the new economics books that he would recommend for summer reading. He started off
By Michael Roberts At the weekend G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Japan, the world’s finance leaders tried to put a brave
By Michael Roberts Despite all the optimistic talk by President Trump about the state of the US economy, the latest data on economic activity and
By Michael Roberts The US Federal Reserve governor, Lael Brainard, in a speech in Washington, revealed the extent of rising inequality in the US. Using
By Michael Roberts Radical economic historian, Adam Tooze, recently tweeted that “Whenever I see figures for the decline in the (advanced economies) AE productivity growth rate
