By Michael Roberts Pausing on further analysis on Trump, trade and tariffs, this post is on economic history. Robert Dees has written an opus of
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By Michael Roberts The Chinese government is just completing its annual ‘two sessions’ or lianghui, where China’s political elite approve the economic policy agenda for
By John Pickard Elon Musk, the unelected supremo of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is creating chaos in US federal agencies. That is in
By Michael Roberts Speaking to the US Congress yesterday after 100 days in office, President Donald Trump claimed that the new tariffs on imports from
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By Michael Roberts Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive. Just as he did when
By Michael Roberts Germany holds a snap election on Sunday and the current coalition government of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and the Free Democrats (FDP)
By Michael Roberts The US consumer price inflation reached 3% year-on-year in January 2025. Energy prices rose for the first time in five months and
By Michael Roberts In an important new development, the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma has launched a new Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE). Led by Clara
By Michael Roberts Michael Pettis is an American professor of finance at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing and a nonresident senior
By Michael Roberts Over the weekend President Donald Trump announced a batch of tariff increases on US imports of goods from the closest partners of
