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With the release of today’s jobs report by the bureau of labor statistics, a public controversy has erupted over the veracity of…
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 overwhelming impression from watching the Republican and Democratic conventions is that this may be the first national election in which voters…
Last Friday, Sept. 14, the US Federal Reserve announced its latest version of massive liquidity (money) injections into the US banking system.…
Occurring in parallel with the developments of deeper corporate control over political institutions and processes will be the further restriction of general…
As the U.S. economy has continued to falter since 2000, both domestically and globally, the response of corporate America and their political…
On Friday, August 31, the California Legislature passed what it calls a major public workers’ Pension Reform bill. Politicians in Sacramento—Democrats, Republican…
The following is a continuation of the three part series on the Eurozone’s continuing triple crisis (sovereign debt, banking system, and recession).…
Today, September 6, 2012, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the directors of the Eurozone’s 17 national central banks will be meeting…
The Eurozone (EZ) is a collection of 17 European economies sharing a common currency, the euro. The meaning of the term, crisis,…
On Friday, July 27, 2012 the US Department of Commerce released its report on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) results for the 2nd…