Capitalism

‘Drop’ in joblessness hides increase in misery

The government reported on Aug. 2 that the official unemployment rate dropped from 7.6 percent to 7.4 percent in July.…

August 7, 2013

Why is capitalism at a dead end?

The following is a slightly edited version of a talk Fred Goldstein, author of "Capitalism at a Dead End" and…

July 25, 2013

Dissecting capitalist crisis

Fred Goldstein, author of the recently published work “Capitalism at a Dead End” and a member of the Secretariat of…

May 1, 2013

Magic numbers can’t hide jobless crisis

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly report, the looming threat of “sequester” and austerity from both capitalist political parties, and…

April 10, 2013

Bookstore talk April 12 on capitalism’s dead end

Fred Goldstein, author of “Capitalism at a Dead End: Job Destruction, Overproduction and Economic Crisis in the High-Tech Era,” will…

March 26, 2013

Capitalism & the corporate ‘tax holiday’ — A WW youth perspective

Time magazine featured an article by Rana Foroohar on Jan. 14 entitled, “The Trillion-Dollar Homecoming,” which discussed transnational companies’ proposal for another…

January 28, 2013