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In a press conference concluded today, December 31, 2012, just hours ago, President Obama reported a partial agreement on the Fiscal Cliff…
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.
Yours truly having negotiated scores of contracts in various venues over the years, it is easy to recognize that House Speaker, John…
Late Friday afternoon, December 28, President Obama held a press conference reporting on the status of negotiations on the so-called ‘Fiscal Cliff’.…
Today, December 20, 2012 the US House of Representatives—aka ‘Boehner’s Boy’s—decided to not vote on the House Speaker’s ‘Plan B’ to continue…
The Fiscal Cliff, we are told, is about the $1.2 trillion reduction in the U.S. deficit scheduled to take effect January 1,…
As the Democrats and Republicans continued their political theater this past week, coming closer step by step to an agreement on the…
While both candidates in the recent election period were busy telling voters about their fictional economic programs, the real economic program that…
On the surface, it appears why Obama won a second term is that he carried nearly all the 'swing states'. But the…
With less than a week to go to the November national elections, popular polls show Obama and Romney are either in a…
The third quarter (July-Sept.) U.S. GDP figures released last Friday, October 26, estimated the US economy grew by 2%. That compares to…