By Michael Roberts Recently, newly confirmed US Treasury secretary and former Fed chief, Janet Yellen, spelt out the challenges facing US capitalism in a letter to
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Stop the game – I want to get off! By Michael Roberts ‘Hedging’ used to be a way reducing the risk of selling or buying. Farmers
‘All good things must come to an end’ By Michael Roberts During the year of the Covid, output, investment and employment in nearly all the
The economic impasse he faces By Michael Roberts There is a new president in the US, the most powerful capitalist economy and state in the
More radical answers By Michael Roberts At the annual conference of the American Economics Association (ASSA), there are sessions hosted by the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) for Marxist
The ASSA conference 2021, part I By Michael Roberts The annual conference of the American Economic Association (ASSA 2021) was unusual this year, for obvious reasons.
Not a pretty picture By Michael Roberts This time last year, I started my post on the forecast for 2020 by making a distinction between predictions and
By Andy Ford, Warrington South CLP Remember how Jeremy Corbyn was attacked without mercy for pledging to borrow just £15 billion to fund the NHS,
By Michael Roberts Every year, I look at measuring the US rate of profit. Official US data are now available to update the measurement of
By Michael Roberts Over the weekend, Abe Shinzo announced that he was resigning as Japan’s prime minister. Last November, he became the country’s longest serving
