The mother of bubbles – but what is the basis? Economic journalist Andreas Cervenka accurately points to the risk of a Mother of Bubbles in 2025 after the US AI fever in 2024. The stock market is run by a few companies such as Apple and Nvidia. The "mother of all bubbles" is starting to be warned about, and history teaches us that bubbles burst sooner or later. Often every eight years…
Category: Bank and debt audit
The truth about immigration
A conservative view is that a country can either have a sustainable welfare state or high levels of immigration. But that view is wrong. The fact is that we can achieve both a well-functioning welfare state and increased immigration. By using progressive taxes and government deficits to invest in making everyone in society feel good…
He who is in debt is not free - the untrue myth about Göran Persson and his heroic glory
"He who is in debt is not free." Göran Persson's trip to New York to ask for a loan and implement cutbacks has become a destructive and untrue myth in Swedish politics. But the story about the crisis in the 1990s and the need for budget consolidation is not correct. This is written by researchers Niklas Altermark, Max Jerneck and Elisabeth...
Resistance to deficits and investments leads to recession in Sweden
Resistance to deficits and investments leads to a recession in Sweden. According to a debate article by Daniel Suhonen and Enna Gerin, Sweden is backing away from Kataly's handfalls into the future. The Tidö government suffers from a morbid inability to grasp Sweden's problems. The country will probably enter a recession. Growth will be the lowest in the EU. Swedish households do not have…
No government deficits – society's unnecessary straitjacket
Vote for bigger government deficits! Deficits are part of how the state regulates the market and protects citizens and nature. Neoliberalism attacks this. How is money created? Can we afford to work? Sweden's Riksbank's prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel in 2022 suggested that banks have an important role for the social economy even if this can…
Trickle-down economics has reached the end of the road
Comedian Jonathan Pie shows with pinpoint brilliance in the video below how Trickle-down economics with his mantra: "Help the rich! Punish the poor!” not working. Trickle-down economics does not build a strong economy nor a strong welfare. Put simply, it leads to a very difficult existence for those who have the least. Even many high achievers…
Normal inflation means both rising prices and wages
The last year's inflation has mostly meant rising prices. Wages and welfare have not kept up. Result: record-breaking cash register at e.g. ICA and many energy companies. Politicians especially within the right but also within the social democratic movement and trade unions contribute. They urge the wage earners not to demand compensation for increased prices. This is because our inflation…
How to save equality and the environment/nature all over the world
Global equality and the environment - how do we save these? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic theory that proposes that governments with their own currency have the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on desirable sectors of the economy. Sustainably productive investments increase budget space According to MMT, government spending is limited by inflation and not by public debt....
Post-election analysis: communication, freedom under responsibility and equality
According to Red Justice's post-election analysis, the broad left including the Social Democrats must improve on communication, freedom under responsibility and equality.
The left party for welfare, climate and industry
First: the public sector must take back control of welfare from the market. It is when politics takes responsibility that we can have functioning care, school and care, full employment and secure jobs. Ever since the 1990s, both s and m governments have privatized and introduced market systems. The Left Party stopped the latest such attempts when they dropped the proposal to…