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The housing market has already crashed
But you still can’t afford to buy a home
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Labour must confront capitalism once again
The party has forgotten where it comes from
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How not to talk about capitalism
The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”
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The feminisation mystique: who ruined the West?
If we must blame something, blame capitalism
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Labubu and the infantilisation of the West
Why are Brits now unable to sleep without fluffy toys?
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Daniela Gabor: “Nobody is defending free markets any more”
The radical economist on why the West needs a complete overhaul.
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Trump in the wilderness
Having led his supporters into the looking-glass world of conspiracy, the US president finds he is trapped inside it.
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The bastards of neoliberalism
The eccentrics of the new right aren’t rebelling against our political regime – they are its twisted successors.
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Donald Trump’s assault on capitalism
One of the greatest beneficiaries of the American economy seems intent on razing it to the ground.
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The West is bored to death
Our nihilistic politics are a product of the crushing ennui and spiritual vacancy of modern life.
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It’s the Economy, Stupid is a polemic about the perils of capitalism
This show is both a whistlestop tour of modern economics and Joe Sellman-Leava’s attempt to understand why he’s always broke.
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Britain is trapped in the Long Seventies
Thatcherism is a dead ideology – so why does it still confine our economic imagination?
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Donald Trump’s disaster capitalism
Los Angeles was primed to burn – by human error and human greed.
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The man who bought everything
Masayoshi Son has amassed eye-popping wealth through relentless acquisition and unquenchable optimism.
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Why the assassination of Brian Thompson ignited American politics
The UnitedHealthcare CEO is seen as part of a supposedly tyrannical oligarchy.
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Donald Trump’s industrial revolution
Can this cabinet of oligarchs bring an end to the neoliberal era?
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The new Trumpian bargain
The president-elect’s team could restore a 19th-century Republicanism, with its blend of trade protectionism and internal laissez-faire.
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Why we need Arundhati Roy
It is vanishingly rare for a writer to both confront the ugliness of humanity and still search for its beauty.…
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Fredric Jameson’s capitalist horror show
We still live in the postmodern landscape defined by the Marxist thinker, who died this month.
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