Financial Times Watch - a primer: detailing the paper's obsessions.

This post intends to explain the basics of a new series of posts, named Financial Times (FT) Watch, that will be appearing regularly on this blog.

Briefly it is a summary of the most regular themes emerging from a daily reading of the FT that will help to explain the current situation of global capitalism in its mission to reproduce capital and discipline labour globally. 

That means that while I will return to many of the same themes as they crop up in the paper, I will not cover everything.

That being said the main categories that I see emerging from reading the FT daily for a year will focus on these sections. 

First we have the primary focus of FT watch: the State Corporate Crime (SCC) Watch. 

This will focus on the criminogenic environment that is fostered by the relationship between the state, capital and the law. This section will look at things like what the regulators are doing (Regulator Watch), the criminal activities that the former catches corporations doing and more importantly the things the regulatory structures allows capital to get away with, literally in some cases, murder. A phenomena that reveal the State Corporate Symbiosis.

Next, we have Recession Watch, another sub-section of the SCC watch. Here we analyse the FT’s coverage of the economic turmoil unleashed by the worlds central banks looking to tame high inflation and a tight labour market with high interest rates. Hence at times it will also be labeled the Fed's War on Labour Watch, as this is the fundamental goal of the US central bank. As such it is focused on the winners, certain fractions of capital, and the losers; workers, the poor and some sectors of capital too; as the new economic crisis unfolds.

In addition there will be a focus on the geopolitics of the United States (US) through the US War Watch. This primarily will look at the evolving conflict that the global hegemon has with China, the US Chip War Watch and the US China War Watch, and the EU, the US EU War Watch, that is fermenting over green subsidies.

More to be added.

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