by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2012 | Blog
This is Part II of Companies As Buy-And-Sell Commodities. See Part I, Companies As Buy-And-Sell Commodities - Workers, Customers and Country As Costs. Also see Wall Street's War Against the Real Economy & We, the People. In Part I I wrote about a pattern we see over...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2012 | Blog
This is Part I of Companies As Buy-And-Sell Commodities. See Part II, Caught In A Machine That Grinds Us Up. Also see Wall Street's War Against the Real Economy & We, the People. As we consider what we need to do to get our economy working again it is useful to look...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 3, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
The news is just out, the economy added a healthy number of new jobs last month, even with government jobs still declining thanks to austeridiocy. The better news is that there is an accelerating trend. The bad news, no help for the long-term unemployed and the charts...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 2, 2012 | Blog, China Currency Showdown, Economy, Making it in America
This week three new reports described even more continuing damage to our economy caused by China's trade cheating -- and our own lack of response. Even as the auto industry recovers and auto-assembly jobs are returning, the auto-parts industry and jobs are not. The...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 27, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Servitude: "a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life" Democracy: "a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of...
