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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.
Both major wings of contemporary mainstream economists—‘Retro Classicalists’ and ‘Hybrid Keynesians’—fail in fundamental ways to understand the qualitative characteristics of the economic…
The US Labor Department released its monthly jobs numbers for June 2012 this past week. Once more the numbers showed a dramatic…
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FIFTH ENTRY IN THE SEQUENCE OF ‘AMERICA’S TEN CRISES’ POSTINGS, ADDRESSING THE TOPIC OF THE BROKEN POST-1945 RETIREMENT…
Earlier this month, this writer predicted that central banks worldwide appeared to be preparing to move toward a coordination of monetary policies…
A pension crisis of major dimensions is growing in the US across all three forms of defined benefit plans (DBPs)—public, private single…
Nearly four years after the 2008 banking crash, and more than $11 trillion in liquidity injections in the US and Eurozone-UK-Japan, the…
Friday, June 1, is a date that marks a shift in the public consciousness of the state of the US and global…
Late last week the financial markets were rocked with the announcement that the biggest, and heretofore assumed most stable US bank, J.P.…
Last Friday, May 4, the U.S. labor department released its jobs numbers for April, confirming a prediction made by this writer this…