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
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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

Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union press release: The BFAWU have reacted furiously at the beyond disappointing announcement today that Morrisons are to close their

By Michael Roberts There’s just one day to go before the US presidential election vote and in this second part of my posts on the

By Michael Roberts I am doing two posts before the US presidential election on Tuesday. The first is on the state of the US economy;

This article is from Michael Roberts’s blog The Next Recession and can be seen here. [featured photo from https://pppp.my/extreme-poverty.html] ******** To track progress towards its

Is there really a £22bn ‘black hole’?
Andy Ford, Warrington South CLP member BBC’s Radio 4 programme More Or Less focuses on, and often debunks, fake statistics, hence its title. It recently