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Death by (il)liquidity, final chapter.

How can the economy's need to wipe out a mountain of fictitious value be squared with its need to maintain social control? Sander considers the prospect of deflation, reflation and/or stagflation

Capital needs to sustain the fantasy of its health, efficiency and inevitability at all costs. As the crisis broadsides this fantasy, the spin-doctors are scrambling to reconstruct it. Now is our chance to stop them, writes John Barker

Loren Goldner weighs in with an analysis of the credit crunch, its genesis out of the last 30 years of 'Washington Consensus' social cannibalisation, and the deeper long term crisis dating back as far as WW1, concluding with a heuristic programme for transition out of capitalism.
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The Biggest ‘October Surprise’ Of All: A World Capitalist Crash

Loren Goldner
October 2008

Margarita Gluzberg's fascination with the fictions that sustain capitalism seems increasingly relevant as they start to unravel in the face of the financial crisis. Here the artist talks to Peter Carty about her recent show The Money Plot