By Michael Roberts It is coming up to ten years this September since the US investment bank Lehman Brothers was allowed to go bust in
Category: Economics Archive
By Michael Roberts Yesterday, we got the data for US corporate profits in the second quarter of 2018, along with a revised estimate for US
By Michael Roberts Can economics ever become ‘pluralist’? Namely, will the universities and research institutes in the major capitalist economies expand their teaching and ideas
By Michael Roberts China’s reaction to Donald Trump’s trade war has been to retaliate with its own tariffs on US exports to China, particularly agricultural/food
By Michael Roberts At the time of the general election in Turkey, I pointed out that Turkey was near the top of the pile for a debt
By Michael Roberts Just this week, the chief economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, delivered a speech on the causes of the UK’s
by Michael Roberts July 6 was a threshold date for the global economy. Trump’s US administration started imposing trade tariffs on $34bn of imports from
By Michael Roberts The G7 meeting in Quebec, Canada was a landmark in many ways. First, there was a clear break in the usual bland
By Michael Roberts There have been some compelling new studies on global inequality and the impact of growing income gaps in the US and Europe.
By Michael Roberts In the first quarter of 2018, the UK economy slowed almost to a standstill. It grew by just 0.1% in real terms. This
