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A spectre is haunting global capital — the spectre of falling rates of profit
The ultra-low and sub-zero interest rates reflect a system afflicted by a falling rate of profit, says FAWZI IBRAHIM
CENTRAL ROLE: People wearing face masks walk past the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange in London
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
THE much-discussed and sometimes ridiculed Marxist theory of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall has come into its own.
The historic low interest rates are testimony to its validity; ultra-low interest rates are recognition of ultra-low rates of profit.
The theory is dazzling in its simplicity. The rate of profit is the ratio of profit divided by capital expenditure also known as capital stock.
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