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-Latins regularly cheat on their taxes with impunity and almost always get away with it. That means if you are looking to buy, rent or lease an existing business, you can be 100% sure that the books are cooked (undercooked actually) for the taxman’s benefit. So then, how can you …
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Updates on how the new US tax deal favors the rich, deepening student loan problems, and how 2012 benefited billionaires. Analysis of possible conversion from a war-oriented to a peace-oriented economy. Response to listener question on using workers’ pension funds to change corporate behaviors. – Podcast: Play in new window …
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Most economists recognize the “fiscal cliff” as an invented crisis. High unemployment is the real problem, yet where is the political pressure on this? Today’s guest is Robert Pollin, professor of economics at UMAss Amherst and founding co-director of its hgily regarded Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). In his new …
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Dr. Jack Rasmus provides an analysis of yesterday’s Fiscal Cliff deal between Congress and Obama, confirming his predictions of the last six weeks, explaining why the next, second phase of negotiations give Republicans and US House of Representatives the advantage. Expect a focus on Medicare-Medicaid cuts and another ‘Debt Ceiling …
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We’re all forced to start the new year with the results of congressional shenanigans of last year — a cliffhanger budget that still isn’t close to a real deal. In fact, it’s a raw deal, and Americans will ultimately pay the price for Congressional and presidential power gone mad. Leid …
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Update on the fiscal cliff deal – what happens now?Dr. Michael Hudson is one of our nation’s important economists and Wall Street financial analysts. He is currently the President of The Institution for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends and was the Chief Economic Policy Advisor for the Rep. Dennis …
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President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are close to hashing out a budget before the hammer falls at the end of the year. But what will the final product look like? Rebecca Theiss, a budget policy analyst with the Economic Policy Institute, explains. Plus, surprise! Hillary Clinton won’t be able …
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Wal-Mart-Free Newark As “the leader in the retail industry in paying its workers the lowest wages,” Wal-Mart should be barred from doing business in Newark, New Jersey, said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress. “We need living wage jobs,” said Hamm. “The minimum wage is a slave …
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The alternate media and blogosphere are buzzing with very disturbing stories about how the government intends to steal/seize private retirement accounts. A new effort by the Obama administration, Congress, the Treasury Department and labor unions aims to fundamentally alter how Americans plan and save for retirement. Warnings have been popping …
America is being raped by the government to feed a lifestyle that it cannot support… and making future generations financially responsible for it. The entire system is in on the game. Nobody is prepared or willing to call a halt to this. The country prints, borrows and spends without giving …
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Post-Thanksgiving sales much more modest that the media wanted you to believe. People need to save and that will put a crimp on economic activity for years to come. DO NOT BELIEVE THE HOUSING RECOVERY NONSENSE! A partial list of the clowns who contributed to the existence of the ‘fiscal cliff’. Your …
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Dr. Jack Rasmus goes solo today and talks about the real fiscal cliff. What’s behind the negotiations in Washington today, Nov. 28, as Obama meets again with corporate CEOs. Why a Deal will happen this time and why the House Teapublicans will fall in line with an Obama-Corporate Deal. Why …
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This may come as news to you, but our country is severely divided. Seriously, though: Tuesday’s election, in which 120 million voters were united only by the belief that the other side’s candidate was a nightmare, was only the most recent illustration of a profound cultural divide in American life …
President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney are locked in a tight race with Tuesday’s election likely to be decided in a few hard-fought battleground states, much like 2000. And, Robert Parry sees other troubling parallels to that disastrous election. When I look at Election 2012, I am reminded of eerie …