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…
Both K-12 and college education systems in America were once the envy of the world. But that system is now in a…
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…
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