By Michael Roberts The collapse of the attempt to form a ‘super league’ of top European soccer teams by the billionaire owners of the big
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By Michael Roberts There is much talk among ‘progressive’ economists that the IMF and the World Bank have turned over a new leaf. Gone are
By Michael Roberts The latest data on economic recovery in China and the US suggest that both economies should be back to or above the
By Michael Roberts In my last post I discussed recent financial engineering and swindles that are traditional to the accumulation of and speculation in what
By Richard Mellor in California Here we go again with the housing market. What is housing? It’s human shelter; that’s what it is to millions
By Michael Roberts I must declare an interest. In days of old, many moons ago, I worked for an investment consultancy that advised Bill Hwang,
By Michael Roberts In my view, there are two great scientific discoveries made by Marx and Engels: the materialist conception of history and the law
By Michael Roberts Last week the US Federal Reserve raised its growth forecasts for the US economy for this year and next. Fed officials now
By Michael Roberts Mark Carney has a book out. It is called Value(s): Building A Better World For All. Canadian-born Carney was formerly the governor of
By Michael Roberts It is one year since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak or epidemic as a ‘pandemic’, namely the global spread of
