THE AUTUMN STATEMENT (or Harmageddon). FROM PROFIT GOUGING TO INTEREST RATE GOUGING.
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China: Xi’s third term – part one: growth, investment and consumption
China’s Congress of the Communist Party takes place this week. This is an important event not only for China, but globally. The Western media have concentrated on the fact that current party leader Xi Jinping will be confirmed for an unprecedented third term as party leader and thus also continue as President of China when […]
China: Xi’s third term – part one: growth, investment and consumption
WHAT BANKING INCOME IN THE USA TELLS US ABOUT THE STATE OF THE US ECONOMY.
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WHAT BANKING INCOME IN THE USA TELLS US ABOUT THE STATE OF THE US ECONOMY.
It’s not looking good for 2022
Economic growth The US economy unexpectedly contracted by 0.4% in the first quarter of 2022, compared to the previous quarter, due in large part to a decline in inventories and exports. Consumer and business spending continued to grow however, suggesting that activity still has some momentum. US real GDP quarterly change % Growth in the […]
It’s not looking good for 2022
The wealth of nations
Marx’s first sentence in Capital Volume One is: “The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an “immense accumulation of commodities”, its unit being a single commodity.” (Moore and Aveling translation). So, from the beginning, Marx makes a distinction between wealth in societies and how it appears […]
The wealth of nations
Fallen angels
In several previous posts, I have highlighted what are called ‘zombie’ companies (companies whose regular profits do not even cover the cost of servicing their outstanding debts) and so must, to paraphrase former BoE governor Mark Carney, depend on the kindness of their creditors”. An OECD study found that such zombies take up a frighteningly […]
Fallen angels
The three contradictions of the Long Depression
One of my basic theses about modern capitalism is that since 2008, the major capitalist economies have been in what I call a Long Depression. In my book of 2016 of the same name, I distinguish between what economists call recessions or slumps in production, investment and employment; and depressions. Under the capitalist mode of […]
The three contradictions of the Long Depression