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Michael Hudson – Mid 2022 Geo-Political Levers at Play

July 2, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and US Federal Reserve’s “austerity program to reduce wages” and boost unemployment. He warns a “long depression” is coming, due to the new cold war on Russia and […]

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Climate Crisis

Michael Roberts – The global solution: private or public?

June 29, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

“Global coordination is impossible while imperialist powers dictate the terms.” Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael’s Blog Inflation, risk of global recession, growing inequality and […]

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Grace Blakeley: Don’t Blame Workers for Price Rises – Blame the Profiteers

June 26, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

The establishment wants you to blame workers for price rises, but wages have flatlined for a decade – the real cause of inflation is the profiteering of big corporations and the super-rich Read Here

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Dean Baker – Neoliberals Do Not Like a Free Market, but They Want You to Think They Do

June 22, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Monopolies are the business model of choice for large corporations and financial institutions. State bailouts are their answer to a free market Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy […]

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David Harvey – The Power Center of Capitalism Has Shifted

June 12, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Prof Harvey takes a look into why modern capitalism concentrates power more in finance and merchant capital than industrial capital. What changes in neoliberalism created such focus on financialization instead of surplus value? “What we’ve […]

Economics

The Destiny of Civilization by Michael Hudson

June 11, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 1

In his latest book, economist Michael Hudson pits socialism against finance capitalism and tears apart the ‘dream civilization’ imposed by the 1 percent. By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and cross-posted with The Cradle […]

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Norbert Häring – Social credit system, digital central bank money and humans reduced to parts of a social mega machine

June 5, 2022 David Shirreff 0

A think-piece after a riotous Whitsun weekend. Social credit and the digital central bank money are tools of technocratic social engineers. They want to turn societies into social mega-machines. To prevent this, it is not […]

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Media Concentration

Maurice Stucke – Giant Tech Firms Plan to Read Your Mind and Control Your Emotions. Can They Be Stopped?

June 1, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Author and law professor Maurice Stucke explains why the practices of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are so dangerous and what’s really required to rein them in. Hint: Current proposals are unlikely to work. Maurice […]

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Economics

The Counterbalance – Stakeholder capitalism’s blind spot: monopoly power

May 5, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Environmental, Social, and Governance investors must identify the actual elephant in the room Counterbalance is a newsletter from a new anti-monopoly organisation, the Balanced Economy Project. Cross-posted from The Counterbalance To subscribe to The Counterbalance […]

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Michael Hudson – Ukraine 4 Steps On

May 4, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

After the people of Ukraine and Russia, the other losers of the Ukrainian war will be Europe. Michael Hudson is the author of Killing the Host (published in e-format by CounterPunch Books and in print by Islet). His […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

December 28, 2025 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

December 3, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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