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In the Bleak Mid-winter

This is not an economic depression brought about by chance or bad luck, it is a readjustment of the ratios of capital to labour in which a greater pool of cheap labour is required to service the middle-classes who, in turn, provide all the services for the rich and super-rich Continue reading

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Do super-rich bankers represent our needs?

Is one of the great scandals of our age that banking executives, already rich beyond most people’s wildest dreams, should be taking huge bonuses out of a system with insufficient reserves to pay ordinary depositors; people who might have undertaken great hardships in order to save sufficiently for their retirement or to help their children. Continue reading

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