economy and society Archives — American Delusions

US manufacturing out vs employment 1947 - 2011

A Note on Jobs & Unemployment – revised

December 31, 2017 Comments Off

A Note on Jobs & Unemployment Original publication date – 12/27/2016; Revised – 12/31/2017 As the presidential campaign of 2016 fades away and the Trump Era begins, we find a national scene without any real --->> read more -->>

Jobs, Automation, Walmart, and Globalization – low skill, low pay jobs disappearing

October 30, 2017 Comments Off

Trump and Republicans (and some Democrats) puff up the return of well-paid manufacturing jobs and toss about ideas that thirty years of globalization can be reversed by renegotiating NAFTA and other trade agreements. All the --->> read more -->>

US Economy

July 26, 2017 Comments Off

PDF 📄Read the keystone essay: What Is Market Capitalism and Why Do We Need to Understand It? The US Economy The US economy is still the largest in he world and it makes us one of --->> read more -->>

Job (Business) Killing Regulations

March 2, 2017 Comments Off

Ever since Ronald Reagan told us in his 1981 Inaugural Address, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” government bashing by right-wingers, Republicans and many Democrats has been a constant --->> read more -->>

Do We Need Wall St. and all the other gamblers in the financial services world?

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What Is the Function of Wall St.? The global financial meltdown of 2008 – 2009 with its ongoing sequelae seems not to have definitively demonstrated the dangers of our continuing belief in the religion of --->> read more -->>