Με μεγάλη επιτυχία έγινε η εκδήλωση – συζήτηση αλληλεγγύης στον παλαιστινιακό λαό που διοργάνωσε η ΠΕΝΕΝ (Παν. Ένωση Ναυτών Εμπορικού Ναυτικού) την Παρασκευή 3/11/2023. Η ομιλία του Στ.Μαυρουδέα στην εκδήλωση επικεντρώθηκε στα πολιτικο-οικονομικά πίσω από την ισραηλινή κατοχή και καταπίεση. Η μαγνητοσκόπηση της ομιλίας του Στ.Μαυρουδέα στην εκδήλωση βρίσκεται στους παρακάτω συνδέσμους: [embedded content] [embedded content] Η μαγνητοσκόπηση όλων των ομιλιών της εκδήλωσης...

Η ομιλία του Στ. Μαυρουδέα στην εκδήλωση αλληλεγγύης στον παλαιστινιακό λαό της ΠΕΝΕΝ (3-11-2023)

Government must spend, otherwise, we would all be in trouble. 

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from Dean Baker The New York Times seems to really love telling readers that China is facing a demographic crisis because its population is falling. It is not clear why the NYT thinks this amounts to a crisis for China, since many other countries have declining populations without experiencing any obvious crisis. The most obvious examples are two of China’s neighbors, Japan and Korea, both of which are seeing modest drops in population. In both countries, per capita income is continuing...

Blog A just transition will require steely resolve from policy makers Thousands of jobs are threatened at a Scunthorpe steel foundry, highlighting the need for a just transition By Chaitanya Kumar 07 November 2023 The UK steel industry is back in...

Prof. Heather discusses Biden motivating the FTC to start the process of breaking up monopolies and weaken up the economic power of these large entities. She draws upon the history of Roosevelt in 1908 doing similar and meeting resistance from House politicians led by Joe Cannon as supported by big business to stymie his efforts. Sounds familiar to what we are experiencing today. November 5, 2023, Letters from an American, Prof. Heather Cox...

Scenes from the October jobs report: soft landing vs. continued slow deceleration  – by New Deal democrat  First, an editorial note: economic news is light this week, so don’t be surprised if I play hooky for a day or two. That being said, let’s take a look at the most important trends, as I see them, from Friday’s employment report. The Big Question is, are we having a proverbial “soft landing?” Or is that just an illusory phase on...

The market could sail through, bullish, all the way until December 15. 

It follows from what has been said that a “shortage” of money with the state is not a technical shortage. Thus, it is never the lack of “money” that causes the state to be unable to spend, but always the lack of resources that causes the state to be unable to get what it wants. Money moves resources. If there are no resources, nothing is moved. However, if resources are the monopolist of money — the government with its central bank — can move it even when the political will is there. This...