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This coming week and next, President Obama is reportedly planning to make a series of speeches on the economy. The deeper purpose…
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.
For the fourth time in as many years, Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, last month attempted to wean bankers and investors off…
Both the U.S. and global economy are at a critical juncture. Six years after the financial crisis that erupted in August 2007…
Annually for the past three years this writer has made leading edge predictions about the trajectory of the US and global economies…
Nearly daily in recent weeks, indicators of the US economy have fluctuated wildly. One day reports of manufacturing and factory orders show…
With Obama’s publication of his 2014 budget proposals this past April 2013, the current round of deficit cutting set in motion by…
The following 2nd contribution to the debate summarizes in brief my perspective—neither Mainstream nor contemporary Marxist—on the causes and consequences of the…
A correct identification and analysis of the causes of the crisis is important. It is essential for proposing effective solutions. Failure to…
More than five years after the global banking crisis first erupted in the summer of 2007, the global banking system continues to…
Fiscal and Monetary policies since the financial crisis and the protracted recession that began in 2008 have failed to generate a sustained…