John Mearsheimer – Annual review of geopolitics in 2023

Since the mid-20th century, economic growth has become a sort of Holy Grail for measuring how economies are doing. But there are real problems using this method as it ignores increasing inequality and worsening environmental […]

2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the stock market crash of 2008; the current financial malaise is the result of the bank bailouts, not the crash; an over-indebted economy cannot be saved unless the banks […]

For some time Richard has been saying that the recession we are facing will be worse than the official forecasts suggest, precisely because those forecasts cannot tell it like it really is, and because the […]