With his sledgehammer approach to the political and economic status quo, President Trump is unleashing chaos upon the world order. In this article, Adam Booth analyses the decline of the dollar as the world’s currency, and its implications for capitalism as a whole.

‘Vassal State: How America Runs Britain’ uncovers the real content of Britain’s so-called ‘special relationship’ with the USA: one of vassalage and subservience. But the author’s liberal calls for the British capitalists to “take back control” offers no solution.

Klarna is in trouble, with its losses doubling and an increase in customers failing to pay back their loans. Both the rise of ‘buy now, pay later’ lending and the crisis of speculative tech companies indicate that the debt-laden capitalist system is living on borrowed time.