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Money/Yenom

This short account by the Pöhl Monetary Research Group (P.M.R.G) of the sterling’s post-war history begins with three ideas concerning money as such

 

Will China Save Global Capitalism?

All over the world, the capitalist states are taking austerity measures to slow the growth of their debts. It is obvious that this policy, since it slows consumption, can’t in itself sustain the growth required for capital accumulation. Where, then, can the necessary economic stimulus come from? For lack of alternatives, eyes are turning eastward. It seems, writes Sander, that history, the supreme ironist, has chosen ‘communist’ China as global capitalism’s saviour.

 

What Crisis?

Video - Forever Blowing Bubbles: A Walking Tour with Peter Linebaugh and Fabian Tompsett (2008)

Forever Blowing Bubbles: A Walking Tour with Peter Linebaugh and Fabian Tompsett

Forever Blowing Bubbles?

Video footage of a Mute event held on the 12th November 2008

A walking tour and talk in the City of London, taking in landmarks of capitalist crisis past and present. Organised by Mute magazine. Writer Fabian Tompsett and Historian Peter Linebaugh will guide a tour around the City relating the contemporary financial crisis to those of previous eras (usch as the 1720 South Sea Bubble), using the urban fabric as text.

Forever Blowing Bubbles video documentation

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