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
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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 Michael Roberts Last weekend the 18th Congress of the World Association of Political Economy (WAPE) took place in Istanbul, Turkey. WAPE is a Chinese-run
Birmingham bin strike: ‘you don’t achieve Equal Pay by driving down the wages of others’
By Birmingham Left Horizons supporters The bin workers in Birmingham are now entering their sixth month of strike action. It is an outrage that all
By Michael Roberts The Magnificent 7 stocks — NVIDIA, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Apple, Meta, Tesla and Amazon — now make up around 35% of the
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Saturday, 19 July 2025. The original article can be found here. ************** Tomorrow,
By Michael Roberts “Bitcoin is a speculation and not an investment. Not regulated, not backed by any asset, only worth what someone is willing to
By Joe Langabeer Last week, Jeremy Corbyn hinted on ITV’s political show with Robert Peston that he was considering setting up an “alternative” grouping –
