Michael Roberts 5.2.25: "...war is the way out of economic stagnation... Germany’s Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz (after winning the recent election) has adopted the same story. In a complete about-face from his election campaign, when he opposed any extra fiscal spending in order to ‘balance’ the government books, he is now promoting a plan to inject hundreds of billions in extra funding into Germany’s military and infrastructure, designed to revive and re-arm Europe’s largest economy. "
by Michael Roberts 2.3.25, who worked in the City of London as an economist for over 40 years. "Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive. Just as he did when he was the boss in the TV show, the Apprentice, he thinks he is running a business and so can employ and fire people at his whim. He has a board of directors…"
S. Hachmeier, and R. Jäschke. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio, page 43--48. Association for Computational Lingustics, (November 2024)