By Michael Roberts US President Donald Trump announced that he had fired Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Trump says
Month: August 2025
In a recent Financial Times article, published on 18th August, it was reported that households renting privately spent on average over a third of their
By Michael Roberts Every August, the regional Kansas City Federal Reserve holds a symposium for the world’s central bankers to consider their role in economic
Andy Ford completes his occasional series of articles on 80-year anniversaries of Soviet involvement in WW2 ******* On 9th August 1945 the Red Army began
By Sjaan Heemskerk, UNISON delegate on TUC Young Workers’ Committee We need to talk about trans rights. Not as an optional extra, not as something
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Book reviews: dollar decline, failures of mainstream economics and epochal crisis
By Michael Roberts It’s mid-summer in the Northern hemisphere, so I thought it might be the time for a quiet review of some books on
By John Pickard The genocde in Gaza continues. Citing the Gaza Health Ministry, Haaretz reported that 60 Palestinians were killed and 344 wounded by Israeli
By Michael Roberts A recent article in the UK’s Financial Times got very excited about the rise of intangibles. The author, Tek Parikh, said that “50 years go,
By John Pickard The deliberate starvation of the population of Gaza – using the denial of food, water and medicines as a means of promoting
By Mike Kennard When I was a child in Kent we lived next door to Reg Kerrison. Reg, with his thick Norfolk accent, was a
