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Global Financial Crisis

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As deregulation, speculation and capital flows soar to record heights in the global economy, a long-held consensus amongst progressive analysts holds that the current debt-based international monetary system is inherently unstable and unsustainable – and destined for an imminent collapse on an unprecedented scale.

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Inflation and the Spectre of World Revolution

Public intellectuals and the Anglo-American left have overlooked the one grievance which cuts across all regimes of the world - namely inflation, especially in vital necessities such as food and fuel costs, writes James Petras.

 
Changing Games in the Global Casino

The flaws of laissez-faire economics are again evident in the latest set of financial debacles - requiring fundamental reforms in global finance, writes Hazel Henderson.

 
The G8 in a Global Mess: 1920s and 1980s Lessons

The precedent of the United States's great depression and Japan's post-bubble collapse should haunt today's G8 summiteers, says Ann Pettifor.

 
The Commodities Bubble

The food crisis is actually a convergence of two crises - that of speculation driving a 'bubble economy', and the crisis of global agriculture created by international financial institutions, writes Sameer Dossani.

 
As We Suffer, City Speculators Are Moving In For The Kill

As the credit crunch deepens and prices spiral upwards, the antics of the hedge fund managers are making our lives even worse, writes Will Hutton.

 
The City Has Got its Head in the Clouds if it Thinks Business Can Go on as Usual

Banks need reining in - and to be punished for their stupidity and recklessness, says The Guardian's economics editor Larry Elliott.

 
We are in the Worst Financial Crisis since Depression, says IMF

The US mortgage crisis has spiralled into "the largest financial shock since the Great Depression" and there is a one-in-four chance that it will cause a full-blown global recession, the International Monetary Fund warned yesterday. 

 
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