Over the past six months this writer has been warning, in various publications and blogposts, that the job crisis in the US…
On June 1, stock markets in New York and around the world declined in levels not seen since last summer 2010. Days…
Every spring for the last three years the business press and government policy makers declare with great fanfare that the job markets…
On Friday, April 1, the U.S. Labor Department released its numbers for jobs and unemployment for the month of March. It reported…
In his 2009, $787 billion economic recovery stimulus plan, President Obama allocated $263 billion toward subsidizing state and local governments that were…
After more than three years since the current economic crisis erupted in the late summer of 2007, there has been no lack…
This coming Friday, February 4, the latest jobs figures will be released by the US Labor Dept. Once again, professional economists are…
As the Obama administration approaches its two-year mark, it finds itself impaled on the horns of a dilemma. The "horns" are the…
In a recent post on Counterpunch, Paul Craig Roberts offered a defense of Reaganomics and Supply Side economic theory, as a refutation…
This week Obama proposed a payroll tax cut of 2%, or $120 billion, claiming it would create jobs. What follows is an…
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