Economics
Bill Mitchell: US labour market showing signs of faltering as real wages continue to decline
Any analyst who is claiming the US economy is close to full employment hasn’t looked at the data. Read Here
Inequality
Economics
William Davies, Sahil Jai Dutta, Nick Taylor, Martina Tazzioli – How COVID-19 revealed the politics of our economy
Drawing on a new book on the events of 2020-21, William Davies, Sahil Jai Dutta, Nick Taylor, and Martina Tazzioli offer a critical account of COVID-19 as a political-economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices. […]
Austerity
Jason Hickel: “It’s either degrowth for the rich or climate disaster”
To prevent climate breakdown rich countries need to consume less. Listen Here
Austerity
Michael Hudson – Ukraine 4 Steps On
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 […]
Economics
Robert Hockett: Make America Make Again
Three errors, all stemming from obsolete and discredited 1990s and early 2000s style thinking, have vitiated our national responses to inflation thus far. Counterpart errors, as it happens, account for our past 50 years’ economic, […]
Climate Crisis
Bill McGuire – It doesn’t have to be like this
Capitalism is failing the planet and most of the people living thereon. We will never tackle the climate emergency until it is replaced with a saner and kinder way of living. Bill McGuire is Professor Emeritus […]
Economics
Patrick Cockburn – The Global Economic Shock of the Ukraine War
The effects of the Ukraine war are being felt worldwide. Patrick Cockburn is the author of War in the Age of Trump (Verso) Cross-posted from Counterpunch Photograph Source: Ray Weitzenberg – CC BY 2.0 The war […]
Fake News
Jonathan Cook – Elon Musk isn’t a threat to society’s health. All billionaires are
The mega-rich buy up media outlets precisely because a lie is more likely to fly than the truth – including the lie that they are invaluable Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in […]
Austerity
Heiner Flassbeck: Argentina again under IMF curatorship – with absurd consequences
In December last year, Patrick Kaczmarczyk and I pointed out that even 20 years after the great currency drama in Argentina, neither the country nor the international community have found a way to bring the […]
Economics
Citations Needed: Jason Hickel – The Neoliberal Optimism Industry
We’re told the world is getting better all the time. In January, The New York Times’ Nick Kristof explained “Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History.” The same month, Harvard professor and Bill […]