Capitalism Creates Poverty

It comes to something when its easier to go on strike in China than it is in good old Blighty. A post on CiF by Zhang Hong about a taxi dri...

I was going to call this post 'Money is bullshit' but decided against it because of my recent post called 'Hierarchy is bullshit...

There has been so much wall to wall coverage of Barak Obama's sensational election victory that I wasn't going to mention it in my...

Now we see what the Scottish Nationalist Party are really made of. The news that the SNP government had given the go ahead to Donald Trump ...

Ever thought about why we need bosses? I have, and I've never been able to understand why we need them. What are bosses for other than t...

One of the more amazing features of the financial crisis is the fact that bank executives and staff still see their inflated salaries and bo...

Are you overweight? Could do with losing a few pounds? I am. I suffer from the dreaded middle age spread - which has accelerated since I sto...

As we slide into a recession, one or two commentators such as George Monbiot have been doing us a service by reminding us that the credit c...

So. One of the great architects of free-market failure, Gordon Brown, is now claiming to have found the solution. The £500 billion bail out ...

I've always been slightly bemused by commentators who seem to think if I'm blogging I'm wasting valuable time during which I sho...

Its interesting to note that its possible to obtain a Nobel prize in economics without taking into account the realities of Capitalism. See...

Well, what a momentous week! It started with the 'invincible' Lehman Brothers going bust and moved on through AIG and HBOS, not to ...

At the weekend we had Lehman Brothers going bust , then AIG having a $85 billion handout from the US Government and today HBOS merging with...

A recent report has highlighted the fact that while enough food is being produced to feed the world's population 800 million people are...

Many people were disappointed when the government announced a stamp duty holiday for properties costing up to £175,000. It was rightly deno...