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Wolff: Housing Crisis, System Failure
Znet Article, August, 23 2010
Rick Wolff
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This capitalist crisis resembles a certain kind of serious disease. Different symptoms keep flaring up at different locations. It began with sub-prime mortgages in residential housing.
Wolff: Economic Recovery for the Few
Znet Article, July, 31 2010
Rick Wolff
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Where is this elusive recovery? The banks, some say, have "recovered." Yet they remain dependent on Washington, they do not make the loans needed for a general recovery, and many medium and small banks keep collapsing. The stock market shows no...
Wolff: Class Struggles and National Debts
Znet Article, May, 07 2010
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The political conflicts and street battles in Greece today foretell what is coming to many countries including the US.
Wolff: The Stakes in "Punishing" Greece
Znet Article, February, 12 2010
Rick Wolff
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When the global capitalist crisis hit in 2007, Greece like most other countries boosted its deficit finance.
Wolff: Transitions between Economic Systems
Znet Article, January, 05 2010
Rick Wolff
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The transition out of feudalism to capitalism in Europe, mostly from the 17th to the 19th centuries, took multiple forms. It was uneven as well, happening in different ways at different rates in different places. Marx studied that transition's v...
Wolff: Labor Movement?
Znet Article, December, 24 2009
Rick Wolff
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The 2010 Statistical Abstract of the United States (and especially Tables 574 to 650), published by the US Census Bureau, provides many statistics that can update understanding of today's working class and possibilities of its movement. The Abstr...
Wolff: The Reality Behind Economic "Recovery"
Znet Article, August, 30 2009
Rick Wolff
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Mid-August, 2009, was a peculiar time in the US economy. Wall Street, big banks, and the media were mostly celebrating "economic recovery." Meanwhile, average Americans were suffering record levels of unemployment, job insecurities, home foreclosu...
Wolff: The Decline of Public Higher Education
Znet Article, February, 20 2007
Rick Wolff
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Over the last quarter century, Americans got used to the idea of their children going on to colleges and universities. In the early 1970s, about 8.5 million Americans attended such institutions; by 2004 the number had doubled. The US population ...
Wolff: Lessons of a Left Victory in France
Znet Article, April, 17 2006
Rick Wolff
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France's leading bureaucrats, from President Jacques Chirac on down, have been defeated. French neo- liberalism -- the dismantling of its welfare state in favor of business -- has suffered a serious blow. A powerful alliance of high-school and u...
Wolff: US Pensions: Capitalist Disaster
Znet Article, January, 06 2006
Rick Wolff
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The US pension systems for workers are now widespread disasters. Many corporations and many cities and states lack the money to pay all the benefits they have promised and legally owe to present and future retirees. Estimates of the shortfall rang...
