By Michael Roberts The latest US GDP figures for second quarter of 2022 renewed the debate about whether the US economy was in a recession
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By Michael Roberts The major economies are moving closer to recession, if they are not already there; and yet inflation rates continue to rise (for
By Michael Roberts Once again, Western ‘experts’ are predicting a financial crash in China. “China is flailing”, says one commentator; another says “a debt bomb is about to
By John Pickard Writing in the Financial Times, its chief economic columnist, Martin Wolf, gave a stark description of the parlous state of British capitalism.
By Michael Roberts There is confusion among mainstream economists and policy-makers on whether the major economies are heading for a recession, are already in a
By Michael Roberts Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida comfortably won last October’s general election for the lower house of the Diet for the ruling Liberal
By Michael Roberts In this third part of my series on the future of work, I want to deal with the impact of automation, in
By Michael Roberts Inflation, risk of global recession, growing inequality and rising debt for the global south, global warming, war – I could go on.
By Michael Roberts In the first post of my Future of Work series, I looked at the impact of working from home and remote work
By Michael Roberts It’s been a big week for the major central banks. First, the European Central Bank (ECB) called an emergency meeting because government
