By Michael Roberts The UK economy was the hardest hit of the top G7 economies in the year of the COVID. Real GDP fell 9.9%,
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A whole world is out there, like another planet, far removed from the daily lives of 99 per cent of the population. It is a
By Michael Roberts During the year of the COVID, global consumer and producer prices dropped. In some manufacturing-based economies, there was even a fall in
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
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
