Economics
Finance
Economics
Chas Freeman: How Competitive is the US with China?
19 April 2025
Finance
Guy Standing – The Left Must Embrace the Precariat
The right has done a better job than the left in understanding how the working class is internally divided and appealing to one section of it. Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS […]
Climate Crisis
Jeffrey Sachs, Yanis Varoufakis – The Six Global Crises Confronting Humanity
22 April 2025 Sachs begins at round 6:30
Economics
Tsjalle van der Burg – Trump’s tariffs will hurt EU and UK exports much less than we think
But the uncertainty caused by Trump’s policies could still cause severe economic damage. Tsjalle van der Burg is a retired Assistant Professor at the University of Twente. Cross-posted from LSE EUROPP Leipzig Trade Fair – […]
Finance
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré: Looking for a “fair” international monetary system
President Trump’s Chief Economic Adviser, Stephen Miran, has claimed that the international monetary system in which the US provides the rest of the world with a safe, liquid asset is “unfair” Read HERE Source: The […]
Climate Crisis
Robert Hunziker – Climate Change Kills Capitalism
What are financial assets worth in uninhabitable cities? Nothing. Robert Hunziker lives in Los Angeles and can be reached at rlhunziker@gmail.com. Cross-posted from Counterpunch Capitalism, like Antarctica and like the Amazon rainforest, is under threat of destruction by […]
Economics
Abundance – How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians. It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]
Economics
Michael Hudson, Glenn Diesen – End of Globalization & Return of Economic Nationalism?
19 April 2025 Michael Hudson, a world-renowned economist, addresses how Trump has put an end to American-centric globalisation and attempted to return to the industrial capitalism of the 19th century. However, he is implementing it […]
Economics
Thomas Fazi: Meloni’s tariff diplomacy flop
In effect, the EU has embraced a hyper-mercantilist, export-driven growth model, prioritising trade surpluses over internal economic development. This approach has come at the expense of both its own citizens, who face stagnating wages and […]