By Michael Roberts A recent paper by mainstream heavyweights, Ben Bernanke (former Federal Reserve chief) and Olivier Blanchard (former chief economist at the IMF) has
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By Michael Roberts The G7 leaders meet this weekend in Hiroshima, Japan, the site of the first atomic bomb holocaust dropped by American bombers on
By Michael Roberts Robert Lucas has died at the age of 85. Lucas was a leading mainstream neoclassical economist at the University of Chicago –
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Saturday, 13 May 2023. The original article can be found here. ************** Turkey
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The end of the Communist (Third) International – 80 years ago today.
Ray Goodspeed introduces an article by Ted Grant, from 1943, on the shameful end of the Communist International (1919-1943). The full article, “The rise and
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts last Friday, 5 May 2023. The original article can be found here. ************** The
By Michael Roberts The collapse of First Republic Bank is the latest chapter in the rolling banking crisis in the US. This was the second
By Michael Roberts Christine Lagarde, the head of the European Central bank (ECB), made an important ‘keynote’ speech last week to the US Council of Foreign Relations
By Michael Roberts Only last February, I posted that there had been a burst of optimism about the state of the world economy in 2023.
By Michael Roberts The recent massive demonstrations against the Macron administration in France forcing through so-called pension reforms reveals the determined attempts of pro-capitalist governments
