By Michael Roberts “If there was no intervention today, gilt yields could have gone up to 7-8 per cent from 4.5 per cent this morning
Category: Economics Archive
Letter from Mark Langabeer – Hastings and Rye CLP. Many commentators have made comparisons with Kwarteng’s tax cuts and Tory Chancellor Anthony Barber’s budget in
By John Pickard It is patently obvious to everyone that the mini-budget of new Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, is a gigantic give away to the rich.
By Michael Roberts Italy goes to the polls this Sunday 27 September. This is a snap election forced on Italy’s president because the ‘technocratic’ government
By Michael Roberts Global corporate profits growth is heading south, according to analysis by JP Morgan economists. JP Morgan estimates that, after surging a humungous
By Michael Roberts Life expectancy is one of the best measures of human development. In hunter-gather societies, on average, about 57-67% of children made it
By Richard Murphy [Editorial note: as we have done previously, we are reproducing here a series of tweets by Professor Richard Murphy, which effectively make
By Michael Roberts The G7 governments have a problem. The war in Ukraine against Russia is not won. It looks set to be a long
The following is the entire thread of a series of tweets posted by Richard Murphy, a professor of Accounting at the University of Sheffield Management
By Michael Roberts Jay Powell, the chair of the US Federal Reserve, made a keynote speech at the annual summer symposium of central bankers in
