West's neoliberal 'age of abundance' is over, as war and sanctions boomerang home
France’s President Macron warned of the end of “an era of abundance.” Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing.
France's President Emmanuel Macron, a former banker, warned that "we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance," calling it "a kind of major tipping point or a great upheaval."
Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing.
Neoliberalism has lost the key pillars it was built on: cheap energy and raw materials from Russia, cheap labor and consumer goods from China, an unsustainable bubble of household debt, low to zero interest rates, and Washington's ability to organize regime-change operations in any country where a government tried a socialistic or state-led economic model.
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"Macron warns of ‘end of abundance’ as France faces difficult winter," The Guardian
"A ‘Tsunami of Shutoffs’: 20 Million US Homes Are Behind on Energy Bills," Bloomberg
Annual per capita disposable income of urban households in China from 1990 to 2021, via Statista
"New Study Confirms That American Workers Are Getting Ripped Off," New York Magazine
