By Michael Roberts The 2021 conference of the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) took place a couple of weeks ago, but
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By Andy Ford (Warrington South CLP member) There is a very visible set of Tory chickens coming home to roost with the gas price crisis
By Michael Roberts The result of the German Federal election was almost exactly as the opinion polls predicted. The Social Democrats (SPD) got the largest
By Michael Roberts “The economy has made progress toward employment and inflation goals and if progress continues broadly as expected, a moderation in the pace
By Michael Roberts China’s Evergrande Group is the second largest property developer in China and it is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Evergrande has
By Michael Roberts Back in May the Chinese government set up a special zone to implement ‘common prosperity’ in Zhejiang province, which also happens to
By Michael Roberts Major stock markets are hovering near all-time highs and commodity prices (food and materials) are rocketing. At the other end of the
By Michael Roberts Professor David Harvey is probably the best-known scholar of Marxist economics in the world. Over the years, Professor Harvey and I have
By Michael Roberts Next weekend, the central bankers of the world meet in a slimmed down COVID annual jamboree at Jackson Hole, Wyoming US. The
By Michael Roberts The swift collapse of the Afghanistan puppet government when US troops withdrew from the war with the Taliban and left the country
