Dr. Jack Rasmus - Archive

Confronting Institutional Racism By Dr. Jack Rasmus, June 03, 2020
Two Fictions of Mainstream Economics. 45 Million US Workers Unemployed By Dr. Jack Rasmus, May 25, 2020
The Deepening US Health Care Affordability and Coverage Crisis By Dr. Jack Rasmus, May 18, 2020
America
Low-Balling the Unemployed in the Era of the 2020 Great Recession By Dr. Jack Rasmus, May 12, 2020
The Fed’s Historic Gamble: Pre-Bailing Out the Banking System By Dr. Jack Rasmus, May 10, 2020
Initial Reflections on ‘Debt Jubilee’, Modern Money Theory (MMT) and the Limits of Monetary Policy By Dr. Jack Rasmus, May 07, 2020
The Myth of V-Shape US Economic Recovery By Dr. Jack Rasmus, April 29, 2020
Understanding Great Recessions. The Dynamics of Epic Recession By Dr. Jack Rasmus, April 13, 2020
Covid-19 and the Forgotten Working Class By Dr. Jack Rasmus, April 02, 2020
On “Market Solutions” to the Covid-19 Crisis By Dr. Jack Rasmus, April 01, 2020
A Reflection on Trump “The War President” By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 29, 2020
US Senate’s Final Stimulus Bill – Why It Won’t be Enough By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 25, 2020
The 2020 Great Recession 2.0 –Or Worse! By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 24, 2020
‘A Tale of Three Crises: Comparing 1929 with 2008 and 2020’ By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 20, 2020
Financial Times
Global Financial Asset Deflation Underway: Prelude to Next ‘Great Recession’? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 10, 2020
Super Tuesday & the Irrevocable Split in the Democratic Party By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 04, 2020
South Carolina Primary: What Does It Mean? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 02, 2020
The Slander Sanders Shout-Fest: The South Carolina Democratic Primary Debate By Dr. Jack Rasmus, February 27, 2020
The Nevada Caucus and the Desperation of Democrat Elites By Dr. Jack Rasmus, February 25, 2020
Trump’s SOTU ‘Red Meat’ Speech: US Political Crisis Now Deepens By Dr. Jack Rasmus, February 05, 2020
An Open Letter to the Green Party for 2020, Noam Chomsky et al. A Reply to the Open Letter by Jack Rasmus By Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher Jr., et al., and Dr. Jack Rasmus, January 29, 2020
Trump’s Feeble Phase 1 China-US Trade Deal By Dr. Jack Rasmus, January 17, 2020
Trump’s Iran ‘Punching Bag’: US Provocations to Continue. Baiting Iran to Escalate? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, January 09, 2020
Trump’s Deja Vu Wartime Playbook By Dr. Jack Rasmus, January 06, 2020
Trump vs. Iran: Has the US Crossed the Escalation to War Rubicon? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, January 05, 2020
On Those Questionable US Wage Statistics… Again By Dr. Jack Rasmus, December 23, 2019
Brexit and the Collapse of British Labour: A Post-Mortem on the UK Election By Dr. Jack Rasmus, December 18, 2019
Trump-Pelosi Trade Maneuvers: The New NAFTA 2.0, China Tariffs, and Brazil-Argentina Steel By Dr. Jack Rasmus, December 11, 2019
On Those Questionable US Jobs Numbers… Again! By Dr. Jack Rasmus, December 09, 2019
Trump vs. Democracy By Dr. Jack Rasmus, December 06, 2019
Europe’s Economy Today & Tomorrow By Dr. Jack Rasmus, November 19, 2019
Neoliberalism: The Idea vs. the Historical Practice By Dr. Jack Rasmus, November 12, 2019
China-US Mini Trade Deal: Trump Takes the Money and Runs By Dr. Jack Rasmus, October 14, 2019
Why Wages Are Lower, Inflation Higher, and GDP Over-Stated By Dr. Jack Rasmus, September 10, 2019
America
What Is the True Unemployment Rate in the US? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, September 06, 2019
Labor Day 2019: Surveys Show Wages Not Rising & Jobs 500,000 Fewer By Dr. Jack Rasmus, September 02, 2019
Trump’s Other Wall. “The Wall of Money”. Towards a Global Currency War? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, August 26, 2019
Argentina & the Next Global Financial Crisis By Dr. Jack Rasmus, August 14, 2019
The Global Currency War Has Begun. China’s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band. Why is The Dollar Rising? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, August 05, 2019
China-US Trade Negotiations Post-Osaka G20: Why No Deal on the Horizon By Dr. Jack Rasmus, July 26, 2019
Is China’s Debt Load the Locus of the Next Crisis? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, July 08, 2019
Is Deutsche Bank the Next ‘Lehman Brothers’? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, July 06, 2019
US v. China: From Tariff War to Economic War By Dr. Jack Rasmus, July 01, 2019
Ideological Manipulation: Attacking Progressive Ideas and Policies, Misrepresenting Socialism By Dr. Jack Rasmus, June 29, 2019
capitalism
On Global Capitalist Crises: Failure of Economic Theory and Capitalist Restructurings By Dr. Jack Rasmus and Mohsen Abdelmoumen, June 28, 2019
On Global Capitalist Crises: Resisting US Financial Imperialism in Venezuela By Dr. Jack Rasmus and Mohsen Abdelmoumen, June 21, 2019
On Global Capitalist Crises: The Destruction and Cooptation of the Trade Union Movement By Dr. Jack Rasmus and Mohsen Abdelmoumen, June 19, 2019
On Global Capitalist Crises: US Neocons and Trump’s Economic and Social Agenda By Dr. Jack Rasmus and Mohsen Abdelmoumen, June 14, 2019
On Global Capitalist Crises. Debt Defaults, Bankruptcies and Real Economy Decline By Dr. Jack Rasmus and Mohsen Abdelmoumen, June 13, 2019
On Global Capitalist Crises: Systemic Changes and Challenges By Dr. Jack Rasmus and Mohsen Abdelmoumen, June 09, 2019
Trumponomics: America First, the US-China Trade War, and the Future of Global Capitalism By Michael Welch, Dr. Jack Rasmus, and Leo Panitch, May 31, 2019
Trade War
China-US Trade War: Hiatus or Busted Deal? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, May 15, 2019
How Accurate Are the April Jobs Numbers? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, May 06, 2019
How Trump Policies Exacerbate Income Inequality in America By Dr. Jack Rasmus and Fars News Agency, May 01, 2019
The Apparent Surge in America’s Rate of Economic Growth (GDP): The Facts Behind the Hype By Dr. Jack Rasmus, April 30, 2019
Trump Whacks the Middle Class By Dr. Jack Rasmus, April 15, 2019
Trump vs. Powell: How Independent Really Is the Fed? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 29, 2019
Interest Rates and the US Economy. The Capitulation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 23, 2019
Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of the Federal Reserve By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 21, 2019
Trump’s $34 Trillion Deficit and Debt Bomb By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 14, 2019