Category: Economy
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Do Nothing by Halves That Can be Done by Quarters: Federal Budget 2022
A consistent theme in the media, when writing about healthcare in Canada, is to use disparaging adjectives, such as ‘dilapidated,’ ‘ramshackled,’ ‘exhausted.’ They are not exaggerations. The main thing we … Keep reading »
Canada’s Spiralling Cost of Living Crisis
As we purportedly emerge from the pandemic, one of the immediate challenges that confronts us is a global cost of living crisis. There has been a sharp round of inflation … Keep reading »
Inflation: Reframing the Narrative
Fighting inflation is on the public agenda today in a way not seen since the 1970s. The orthodox response – having central banks raise interest rates to slow the economy, … Keep reading »
Historical Development of Capitalism /w Steve Maher
Historical Development of Capitalism – from the early 20th century, to the present: Post WWII, Marshall Plan, Bretton Woods, Post-War Boom, Nixon Shock, Stagflation, Class Discipline, Globalization, Volcker Schock… all … Watch video »
‘Crush Inflation’?: Workers, Living Standards, and the Politics of Inflation
Politicians, the media, central bankers and the average worker have all been talking up the recent acceleration in the cost of living. Just a short time ago price rises of … Watch video »
Rosa Luxemburg and Debt as an Imperialist Instrument
103 years back, Rosa Luxemburg was shot dead and her body flung into Berlin’s Landwehr Canal. However, she could not be wiped out from history as her life and works … Keep reading »
Once Again Austerity Proponents Tell It Like It Isn’t
There appears to be growing consensus among economists and policy makers that inflation is now the main threat to the US economy and the Federal Reserve Board needs to start … Keep reading »
Planning, Democracy, Socialism: Learning from Kerala
The 20th and early 21st centuries have witnessed numerous projects that link planning praxis to strategies of structural change. For the last two generations, the state of Kerala, India has … Watch video »
‘So Far from God, so Close to the United States’: Responding to Biden’s Buy-American Auto Rebates
The recently passed US “Build Back Better Act” includes a section that is causing great angst for America’s co-signers of the US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA).* Justified as addressing the environmental … Keep reading »
Premature Declarations of Austerity’s Death
In a recent issue of Adam King’s newsletter, King interviewed Jim Stanford, perhaps Canada’s best known progressive economist. The interview revolved around the apparent recent reversal of negative attitudes to … Keep reading »
G20 States Scheme to Avoid Economic Commitments at COP26
The G20, an exclusive club of mostly wealthy nations, met just before the COP26 in Glasgow and paid little more than lip service to the world’s leading problems, while preserving their own financial dominance. Keep reading »
Neoliberalism, Unions, and the Left /w Sam Gindin
We are joined by Sam Gindin, a legendary Canadian labour researcher, author, and organizer, to chat about a wide-range of topics involving the state of labour in North America. Listen to audio »