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THE LINK BETWEEN TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY AND THE TECHNICAL COMPOSITION OF CAPITAL

THE UK BUDGET: WHEN TREACHEROUS POLITICIANS BECOME LOYAL ACCOUNTANTS.

This article will appear in the Left Lane on Substack. This article focuses on the hardships facing British workers especially the bottom 60% of wage and benefit earners and tests whether this Budget will improve or aggravate these hardships. This Budget will be remembered as the Budget which raised the share of taxes as a share of GDP to a record high.

ONE YEAR AFTER TRUMP WAS ELECTED THE USA CONTINUES TO UNRAVEL.

SAM WILLIAMS: CYCLES AND WAVES, REALITY AND ILLUSION.

I apologise for getting the author’s name incorrect. I have reposted the article acknowledging that Sam Williams is the actual author.

Errata: the last paragraph on page 5 should read Graph 4 not Graph 3.

WHAT IS COLLAPSING FASTER, THE UK LABOUR PARTY OR THE UK ECONOMY?

IT IS CHINA WHICH SUPPORTS THE WORLD ECONOMY NOT THE AI BUBBLE. (Including an analysis of Q3 Chinese data)

AT LAST WALL STREET IS GETTING A REALITY CHECK.

PRODUCED PROFITS vs FICTITIOUS PROFITS.

REFLECTIONS ON THE TRUMP XI MEETING IN SOUTH KOREA.

The extent of the US military build up in the Caribbean around Venezuela is detailed in this article by Reuters https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CARIBBEAN/MILITARY-BUILDUP/egpbbnzyrpq/. This speaks not only to the need for a US military win after the defeats in Iran and the Ukraine, but to US imperialism’s renewed determination to dominate the Western Hemisphere by pushing China out of the region and securing it as its “own backyard”.

TRUMP’S LAST GASP ATTEMPT TO DOMINATE RUSSIA AND CHINA. The next two months are critical.

United Parcel Services released its financials on the 28th October. Its parcel volumes in Q3 yoy in the US segment was down 12.3%. Of this fall 5.5% was accounted for by voluntarily relinquishing Amazon runs. The fall in parcel deliveries adjusted for this was still significant confirming my observations in the above article that the volume of goods production and deliveries, as far as the mass market is concerned is shrinking. and because this is the 8th quarter of shrinkage, the cumulative losses are now substantial. https://investors.ups.com/_assets/_ef7d88211c0730938dd9ca5186deb1e8/ups/db/1111/10959/file/UPS+3Q25+Earnings+Webcast+Deck+FINAL.pdf