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Trump giving a press conference on the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs. Photo: Daniel Torok / The White House / Flickr

US economy: jobs and AI

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Chavistas protesting the removal Chavez and Bolivar images from the National Assembly. Source: Luigino Bracci - wikicommons / cropped from original / CC BY 2.0

Venezuela: what lies ahead?

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Melting Glacier. Photo: Rawpixel / CC0 1.0 Universal

Replacing capitalism – not with socialism, but with democracy?

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Wanting to further strengthen their security alliance: Donald Trump and Sanae Takaichi display the signed documents. (October 28, 2025). Photo: Heute.at/ CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Japan election: from stagnation to stagflation

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Four nines fine standard 400 oz gold bars. Photo: Chepry (Andrzej Barabasz) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

The debasement trade and the future of the dollar

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Nvidia at CES. Photo: Doug Kline / CC BY-NC 2.0

AI and creative destruction

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Donald Trump with Scott Bessent, Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz. Photo: The White House / Flickr / Public Domain

US economy: beneath the bombast

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2025 World Bank-IMF annual meetings. Photo: World Bank / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

The consensus: from Washington to London

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Oil pumpjack. Photo: Eric Kounce / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain

Venezuela and Oil

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Meeting of the International Monetary Fund. Photo: International Monetary Fund / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Forecast for 2026

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All in a day's work. Stack of money. Photo: Damian Gadal / Flickr / CC BY 2.0

Extreme inequality – and what to do about it

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K-shaped recovery via Michael Roberts

Stagflation and the K-shaped economy

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Dale Creek Bridge taken during construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, 1864-1869. Photo: Andrew J. Russell / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

AI and the railway mania

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Cost of Living Crisis. Photo: Tim Dennell / Flickr / All creative commons

UK: the ‘make or break’ budget

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COP30 Climate Summit in Belém, Brazil. Photo: Raimundo Pacco/COP30 / Wiki Commons / CC4.0

COP 30: it’s no joke

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Congreso Nacional de Chile. Source: Wikicommons / cropped from original / CC BY-SA 2.0

Chile on a rightward trajectory

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