Economy

Why, given that it is likely that whatever oil and gas there is west of Shetland is going to stay in the ground, should investors have any interest?

The reason you’re eating out of a foodbank is because the Green-Industrial Complex ate your lunch.

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.

A complex civilisation is like a soufflé. It is either growing or collapsing. There is no steady state.

Far from raising the income the government claims it needs the additional taxes will force hundreds of businesses into insolvency.

This was – and is – the fundamental flaw in neoliberalism, and we are about to witness it bringing the house down.

London is displaying all of the symptoms of decline which were so obvious in places like Blackpool a generation ago.

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.

Denial is the widespread political response among those who are still warm enough and fed enough to participate.

Just like Foreman, the western states – and the US neocons in particular – have overestimated their economic and military strength...