Trillion-dollar government spending programs have far exceeded the outlays following the 2008 financial crisis in Western countries, and go hand in hand with the gigantic government bond-buying programs and quantitative easing policies of central banks, which in turn flood the …
On August 16, 2021 President Biden addressed the nation to explain why the US military is pulling out of Afghanistan. To a lesser extent, he also tried to explain why the Afghan government and its 300,000 military forces imploded over …
Introduction: Beyond the Critique of Speculation This introductory chapter discusses the shortcomings of the heterodox critique of financial speculation as an irrational divergence from real values. It argues that the capitalist subject speculates not in defiance of fundamental values …