Economics
Chris Hedges, Rob Larson – Why You Should Hate the Rich Even More
18 June 2025 The ultra-wealthy hover above the realities of the world around them like extraterrestrial aliens. Their material reality physically separates them from the rest of society with gated communities and private jets but […]
Alastair Crooke – Is the Trump Project unravelling?
Confidence is everything. And that ‘capital’ is being eroded rapidly Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal The Musk versus […]
Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer
Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]
Wolfgang Streeck – The Case Against Planetary Governance
Democracy is in crisis. Wolfgang Streeck thinks we’ve misidentified the cause and the solution alike. Wolfgang Streeck is Emeritus Director and Senior Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, […]
Richard Wolff, Michael Hudson, Nima Alkhorshid – The Long Goodbye to Empire
5 June 2025 NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, June 5, 2025, and our friends Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are back with us. Welcome. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Let’s […]
Mebratu Kelecha – Between Washington and Beijing, Africa is a country
Amid Trump’s tariffs, Africa faces trade disruptions, corporate power, and emerging partnerships in its quest to control its economic destiny. Mebratu Kelecha is an independent researcher Cross-posted from Other News Photo: NASA/Public Domain The global […]
Michael Roberts – Bancor
The Keynesian idea of an international system to balance global trade surpluses and deficits between countries is a utopian fantasy. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from […]
DeStatis – German Recession: Exports in April 2025: -2.1% year on year. Imports up 3.8%
Exports (calendar and seasonally adjusted exports of goods), April 2025 131.1 billion euros -1.7% on the previous month -2.1% on the same month a year earlier Imports (calendar and seasonally adjusted imports of goods), April […]
