The reason you’re eating out of a foodbank is because the Green-Industrial Complex ate your lunch.
Read More »But profit (sort of) matters
Within a financial frame, then, profit can – and often is (sometimes reasonably) – equated with greed... ). In a deeper sense, however, profit provides an – albeit inaccurate – measure of viability.
Read More »The myth of redundancy
A complex civilisation is like a soufflé. It is either growing or collapsing. There is no steady state.
Read More »Reverse Laffer
Far from raising the income the government claims it needs the additional taxes will force hundreds of businesses into insolvency.
Read More »Embracing the collapse
This was – and is – the fundamental flaw in neoliberalism, and we are about to witness it bringing the house down.
Read More »London’s falling
London is displaying all of the symptoms of decline which were so obvious in places like Blackpool a generation ago.
Read More »Crisis begins
For two years we have been spending more to buy less, but in the last couple of months we have switched to buying less and spending less.
Read More »The inevitability of decline
Denial is the widespread political response among those who are still warm enough and fed enough to participate.
Read More »Rope-a-dope
Just like Foreman, the western states – and the US neocons in particular – have overestimated their economic and military strength...
Read More »When the rain dance fails
Central bankers have been all too similar to ancient cultists doing ineffective rain dances, ever since they drew the wrong lesson from the early 1980s.
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