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What is inflation? What causes it? What are the problems in how the Federal Reserve and other central banks respond to it? Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain in …
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By Jennifer Know, Policy & Research Analyst, published in The Equation In 1990, Congress passed a law directing all federal agencies to produce regular, audited financial statements. More than …
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The following article by Carlos Martinez first appeared in Global Times on 1 December 2022. It addresses the signs of an emerging split in the New Cold War front, with …
Read MoreAdvancing global de-dollarization, China’s central bank is boosting its gold reserves while signing currency swap deals in yuan with countries like Argentina, encouraging the use of renminbi instead of US …
Read MoreThe US claimed unelected coup leader Juan Guaidó was “interim president” of Venezuela from January 2019 to December 2022, when his former allies in the right-wing opposition removed him from …
Read MoreFormer DIA analyst Ana Belén Montes was imprisoned for 20 years for sharing intelligence with Cuba that helped it prevent US attacks and sabotage. Upon being released, she condemned the …
Read MoreElias Jabbour argues that Western scholars turn Marx upside down in analysis of China, failing to see how it is developing a new socio-economic formation, an “embryonic socialism”, that cannot …
Read MoreIn 2020 and 2021, the wealthiest 1% of the world’s population made nearly two-thirds of all new wealth – six times greater than the wealth made by the poorest 90%. …
Read MoreProminent French intellectual Emmanuel Todd argues the Ukraine proxy war is the start of WWIII, and is “existential” for both Russia and the US “imperial system”, which has restricted the …
Read MoreWestern sanctions led Russia to greatly increase trade with Asia, while devastating Europe’s economy. The US tech war against China is damaging its own industry. By Renate Bridenthal (published in …
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