Behind Reeves’ spin, Labour budgets for the rich
Chancellor hikes taxes on workers, cuts public spending, shields the rich
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What’s creating the AI bubble?
At the heart of the AI investment frenzy is a closed loop of speculative investment, reminiscent of the worst excesses of the dot-com bubble.
Reeve’s economic plan
By Peter Main On 11 June, Chancellor Rachel Reeves will present her Comprehensive Spending Review. This will be the clearest
A message from the markets
Labour’s insistence that fiscal rules are rules is a warning to workers and unions that it plans to put profit first.
Labour faces budget backlash as bosses plead poverty
The bosses are threatening to pay for takes hikes by cutting jobs and hours.
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What’s behind the recent bank collapses?
Silicon Valley, Signature, Credit Suisse, the first of many?
Mini-budget: This was what Brexit was really about
By Peter Main At first sight, Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-budget” looks like nothing more than pandering to the Tory members who
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Economy: The worst is yet to come
Assumptions that damage to the UK economy was inevitable have now been backed up with concrete evidence.
What’s the Chinese for ‘Lehman Brothers’?
CHINA’S CONSTRUCTION industry, a key lever in Beijing’s entire economic policy, is facing a debt crisis of enormous proportions. Attention
Workers Expected to Pay for Worst Economic Crisis since 2008
By Tim Nailsea BRITAIN’S ECONOMIC growth has almost stalled because of shortages of labour in parts of industry and of
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A living wage for all
By Jeremy Dewar Workers in Britain are being hit by a triple whammy this month: inflation heading towards 5%; a
Furlough end threatens 1 million jobs
Mass unemployment and the scourge of long-term joblessness have returned.
Stop the third wave: no trade-off between lives and livelihoods
Coronavirus cases are surging once again.
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Nothing surprising in Starmer’s response to the Spring Budget
Starmer opposes Corporation Tax increase.
Nothing surprising in Starmer’s response to the Spring Budget Read Post »
The Corona Crash by Grace Blakeley
Andy Yorke reviews The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic will Change Capitalism by Grace Blakeley
The house always wins: What we can learn from the GameStop stock war
The war between Wall Street and Reddit shows you cannot defeat the capitalists at their own game.
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