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On Friday, August 5, the employment numbers were released by the US Department of Labor for July jobs. The Current Establishment Survey…
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.
Traders on the floor with music artist Usher, who rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on August 1, 2011.…
Sunday evening, July 31, President Obama and Senate Majority and Minority leaders, Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, announced they had reached an…
Why should the Teapublicans agree to Obama and the Democrats’ (aka ‘Timidcrats’) offers to settle the debt ceiling issue? Any seasoned negotiator…
Today, Friday July 22, Obama and House majority leader, Boehner, are reportedly about to agree to a $3 trillion spending cuts only…
A few weeks ago in late June it leaked out that Vice-President Biden had secretly agreed with Republicans to $1 trillion in…
Hang on to your economic crisis hat. The recession that never really ended is coming back. Economic recovery under the Obama administration…
While politicians and business press pundits last March-April were proclaiming the jobs crisis was over, this writer predicted that “March-April’s Job Gains…
In his July 4 editorial New York Times in-house economist Paul Krugman, identifies two important facts about jobs and taxes in the…
The breakdown on debt limit negotiations between Republicans and Democrats last week was over draconian cuts in the social wage (social security,…