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For more than three decades, what might be called the Great American Tax Shift has been gaining momentum. Wealthy investor households with…
Jack Rasmus
Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is the author and producer of the various nonfiction and fictional workers, including the books The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy From Reagan to Bush, Clarity Press, October 2019. Jack is the host of the weekly radio show, Alternative Visions, on the Progressive Radio Network, and a journalist writing on economic, political and labor issues for various magazines, including European Financial Review, World Financial Review, World Review of Political Economy, ‘Z‘ magazine, and others.
The great corporate myth-making machine has been hard at work of late, attempting to create the false impression that US corporations are…
Dr. Jack Rasmus and guest, Dr. Margaret Flowers, provide a progressive critique of Obamacare and its growing problems of implementation and coverage.…
A first look at A gives the impression that the US economy is mending and might soon begin to recover. But a…
“QEs, massive liquidity injections by central banks, token fiscal stimulus policies followed soon by austerity fiscal stimulus withdrawals represent the recovery policy…
In 2008-09 the global capitalist economy crashed with a bang—a collapse from which it is still struggling to fully recover. The next…
With the interim ‘debt ceiling/government shutdown’ agreement reached last week between the Obama administration and the Teaparty-driven U.S. House of Representatives, the…
Dr. Jack Rasmus focuses on the latest debt ceiling-government shutdown negotiations in Washington, and his prediction of the past weeks that a…
History repeats itself, but always in combinations of past events. What today’s debt-ceiling/government shutdown dual crisis represents is a telescoping, within a…
On October 9, 2013, President Obama nominated Janet Yellen, current vice-chair of the Federal Reserve, as the new Fed chair, to replace…