Employment
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Sharp Fall In Consumer Spending, Manufacturing In U.S. (Andre Damon)
Aug. 3, 2011 (WSWS) -- Economic data released this week provides further evidence that economic growth in the United States has virtually come to a halt. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that ...
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The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression (John Atcheson)
Aug. 4, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Since Reagan, Republicans have been on a “starve the beast” campaign -- by which they mean eviscerate the government by taking away as much revenue as they can. Sta ...
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America In Collapse (Leon Fisher)
Aug. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- America is in the throes of collapse and the corporate controlled mass media is attempting to shift the blame to labor unions, senior citizens and the dis ...
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Gerald Celente: 'Economic Martial Law Will Be Declared' (Mac Slavo)
Aug. 1, 2011 (SHTFplan.com) -- In his latest quarterly Trends Journal (Summer 2011), Gerald Celente provides us another “history of the future,” in which he discusses global economic, monetary, and p ...
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Economy Close to Stall Speed May Signal Renewed U.S. Recession (Peter Coy)
Aug. 3, 20111 (Bloomberg) -- Economics isn’t rocket science, but the U.S. economy is a little like a rocket. If it has enough thrust, it can escape the tug of economic gravity. Not enough, and it jus ...
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An Economy Destroyed: The Enemy Is Washington (Paul Craig Roberts)
July 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Recently, the bond rating agencies that gave junk derivatives triple-A ratings threatened to downgrade U.S. Treasury bonds if the White House and Congres ...
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Dante’s Slope (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 17, 2011 -- I have been at loose ends now for two, could it be going on three years? Without a phone or an address to call my own, I have access to these thin ...
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How the bubble destroyed the middle class (Rex Nutting)
Commentary: Sluggish growth is no mystery: No one has any money July 8, 2011 (MarketWatch) -- A lot of people say they are deeply puzzled by the slow recovery in the U.S. economy. They look at the 9+ ...
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U.S. Spending, Manufacturing Cooled in Slowdown (Alex Kowalski)
June 26, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Consumer spending probably climbed at the slowest pace in almost a year and manufacturing cooled as dimmer job prospects and elevated commodity costs weighed on the U.S. ...
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Economy Alone Fails to Explain Turkey’s Success (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 23, 2004 -- Many commentators today are basing the success of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the June 12 elections largely on its ability to gui ...
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Why the revolution must start in America (Chris Hedges)
Tyler Hicks / Redux / The New York Times Audio version read by George Atherton – Right-click to download June 16, 2011 (AdBusters) -- The unrest in the Middle East, the convulsions in Ivory Coast, th ...
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