Economy

On June 26, 2023, Greece’s right-wing New Democracy Party (NDP), led by Harvard-educated, former banker Kyriakos Mitsotakis, secured an outright majority in Greece’s Parliamentary election. It [...]

This week, on the Dialectics Unhinged Podcast, I took part in a wide-ranging discussion about the stunning decline of the West. Among other things, we talked about the failure of Western elites [...]

On April 5, the Valdai Club in Moscow hosted an expert discussion, titled “The New Economic Order: Is it Really Possible to End the Dollar Monopoly?” I participated in that discussion, along with [...]

On April 5, 2023, I participated in a panel discussion at the Valdai Club in Moscow. In our discussion, which was focused on de-dollarization, I was joined by Professor Radhika Desai of the [...]

This week, in a conversation with Zain Rasa of Germany’s AcTVism Munich, I discussed the Ukrainian government’s rampant neoliberalism and its efforts to persuade Western corporations [...]

[Cet article a été initialement publié par Pivot.Québec le 7 janvier 2022.] Le 17 décembre 2021, le gouvernement Trudeau a annoncé en fanfare son intention d’instaurer un salaire minimum [...]

Cette semaine, sur ICI Radio-Canada, j’ai parlé avec Elsie Miclisse des failles du nouveau salaire minimum fédéral et des nombreux avantages d’offrir aux Canadiens un revenu de base [...]

On December 17, 2021, the Trudeau government announced with fanfare that it planned to institute a $15 federal minimum wage. The wage came into effect on December 29, 2021. Every April 1, [...]

This past week, I talked about eco-socialism and the Green Party of Canada leadership contest with Mike Palacek, former President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. As Mike and I discussed, [...]

Today, the IMF warned that the world is on the cusp a recession even more severe than the contraction caused by the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Canadians are confronting an economic crisis [...]