Rasmus continues his analysis of the growing influence and instability in the global shadow banking system, including a look at the major role being played by shadow banks in China today
Recession or stagnation?
A look at the growing role and influence of shadow banks in the global financial system
Jack Rasmus and guest, Steve Breyman, discuss this past week’s just released Obama/EPA proposals to reduce CO2 emissions from existing industrial plants in the US by 30% by 2030
The US economy has been rapidly replacing real jobs in goods producing industries with service jobs for decades now
A talk on how Europe’s ‘stop-go’ recovery and its version of an ‘Epic recession’ (i.e. short, shallow recoveries followed by economic relapses and double dip recessions) is proving worse than the USA’s experience with ‘stop-go’ recovery since 2009
The overall share of incomes from Capital is rising at the expense of workers
What’s happening with US GDP, business investment, consumer spending, housing, and jobs in the US today
Jack Rasmus welcomes guest, Jill Stein, Presidential candidate of the Green Party USA, to discuss President Obama’s just released, ‘US National Climate Assessment Report’
The central organizational question facing the AFL-CIO and its affiliated unions today is how to achieve the organizational restructuring neces¬sary to refocus Labor priorities at the point of production
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