Brett Christophers on our growing ‘asset-manager society’
Brookfield Place, Toronto. Photo by Matt Wiebe/Flickr. First published in early 2023, Verso Books just released a new paperback version of Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asse...
Brookfield Place, Toronto. Photo by Matt Wiebe/Flickr. First published in early 2023, Verso Books just released a new paperback version of Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asse...
From left, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Chinese President Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pose…
Container vessels at the Yangshan Port, Shanghai, January 2, 2022. Photo courtesy Visual China Group. The year 2020 marked parity between the total GDP of the Group of Seven (the…
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff, Chinese President Xi Jinping and South African President Jacob Zuma take a BRICS leaders family photo at…
Photo by Sascha Grosser/Wikimedia Commons Economies around the world were shocked and damaged over the course of 2022. Global capitalism had been brewing conflicts among the major powers (the United…
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Crown Prince and Defence Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud at the G20 summit in Osaka. Photo courtesy the Kremlin/Twitter. Did…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Photo by Sharon Farmer/Flickr. Shock therapy was the term used to describe the drastic switch from a planned publicly owned economy in the Soviet Union…
Supply bottlenecks generated during the COVID slump globally have now been compounded by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, particularly in energy and food, resulting in rising inflation. Photo by Atoms/Unsplash. It’s been…
The shift in international currency strength after the Ukraine war will not form into some West-East bloc, but instead towards a fragmentation of currency reserves, argues Michael Roberts. Image by…
The Pandora Papers revealed the inner workings of a shadow economy hiding wealth in tax havens such as Monaco (pictured), Panama, Dubai, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Photo from Shutterstock.…
Up until now, famed geographer David Harvey has been considered a leading Marxist, even if some on the left have criticized several of his theories as “reformist.” In my opinion,…
Publio Gonzalez, a biologist with the Gorgas Institute, holds a bat in Meteti, Panama, June 6, 2018. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dustin Mullen. As failures to contain…
It is perhaps fitting that the seriousness of the coronavirus threat hit most of the Western world around the Ides of March, the traditional day of reckoning of outstanding debts…
Trade and currency wars, financial volatility and economic turbulence are now the most important features of the world economy. The elements of a new international financial crisis are in place.…
Neoliberalism as economic theory was always an absurdity. It had as much validity as past ruling ideologies such as the divine right of kings and fascism’s belief in the Übermensch.…
Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters The new Trump administration has made the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico and the United States, a major issue in its relations…
Photo by Ben Goff A recent report out of the US raises questions about politicians’ (in Canada and the US) obsession with the state of the middle class and highlights…
Photo from ThisFragileTent.com Brexit, Trump’s win, Europe’s populist movements: the West is protesting, from the left and the right, against the neoliberal, globalist orthodoxies of the past 40 years. The…
Photo from Public Domain Co-founder of the Transition Movement, Naresh Giangrande in conversation with Richard Swift, author of SOS Alternatives to Capitalism and an editor of the New Internationalist Magazine.…