By Michael Roberts Last Wednesday’s decision of the US Federal Reserve Bank’s monetary committee to cut its ‘policy interest rate’ is significant in two ways.
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By Michael Roberts About a year ago, the European Union’s Commission asked Mario Draghi to write a landmark report on the future of Europe’s economy.
By Michael Roberts This article by Michael Roberts includes a very clear statement about the nature of the Chinese economy, a position that he has
Ray Goodspeed reviews Gary Stevenson’s autobiography, “The Trading Game: A Confession” [2024, Allen Lane] Gary Stevenson is an increasingly important and influential social media creator
By Michael Roberts Today, elections take place in two large provincial states (Länder) in eastern Germany. All the opinion polls show that the Eurosceptic, anti-immigrant,
Letter from Steve McKenzie, Unite Community member Never let death, destruction and genocide stand in the way of profits. The disgusting headline in the Financial
By Michael Roberts Every August the world’s top central bankers meet in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a ski resort in central US for a ‘symposium’ organized
By Michael Roberts In a recent post, I reviewed an important new book by Brazilian Marxist economists Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Alessandro Miebach and Henrique Morrone.
By Michael Roberts The overthrow of the Sheikh Hasina’s dictatorial government in Bangladesh by students and the populace last week is a startling outcome of
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Thursday, 8 August 2024. The sentence near the end of the article about
