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Rick Wolff

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Dec 10, 2017
Latest from Rick Wolff

Ireland and the Tragedy of European Austerity

European financial and political leaders are now imposing a social disaster on Ireland’s people. It parallels and worsens the similar disasters underway in Greece and eastern European countries…
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Rick Wolff,
rdwolff.com | News Analysis
November 30, 2010
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Rick Wolff | The Crisis and Obama’s Decline

The economic crisis that Obama rode to victory in 2008 also rode him down in the 2010 elections. Obama and his economic advisors badly “mismanaged the crisis.” While…
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Rick Wolff,
MR Zine | Op-Ed
November 29, 2010
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Rick Wolff | US Voters Depressed and Disenfranchised

The 2010 elections revealed yet again the peculiar habits of the US electorate. The majority of eligible voters – about 60% – did not vote despite the months…
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Rick Wolff,
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November 10, 2010
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Rick Wolff | Economic Crisis and Tax Injustice

The Associated Press’s Robin Hindery reported on October 29, 2010 that the AP had found a remarkable fact: communities across the US have been raising their local property…
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Rick Wolff,
MR Zine | Op-Ed
November 1, 2010
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Why France Matters Here, Too

For many weeks now, the historic social change sweeping across France has drawn increasing attention globally. It should. A genuine, mass democratic upsurge has surprised all those who…
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Rick Wolff,
MR Zine | Op-Ed
October 26, 2010
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Another Outrage: Pushing Back Social Security Benefits

In France, millions march against the Sarkozy plan to push the age of eligibility for full retirement benefits from 65 to 67. “We can no longer afford” to…
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Rick Wolff,
MR Zine | Op-Ed
October 18, 2010
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French Labor Activism, US Labor Passivism

US workers suffered a major rise in unemployment from its level in 2008 (5.8 percent) to its level in the second quarter of 2010 (9.7 percent). By comparison,…
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Rick Wolff,
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October 12, 2010
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Krugman Frustrated

Poor Paul Krugman, stuck in the old Keynesian rut amidst its blinders. The recession would be over, he says, if only the government ran more and bigger deficits…
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Rick Wolff,
MR Zine | Op-Ed
October 6, 2010
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Why Millions March in France, but Not in the US

The basic issue is the same there and here. Capitalism generates another of its regular, periodic crises, only this one is really bad. It begins, as often happens,…
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Rick Wolff,
MR Zine | Op-Ed
September 10, 2010
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Whose Recovery? What Double Dip?

Is there an economic recovery underway? Was there one that has now stopped? Will our current recession, partly recovered from, now tumble downward again in a second or…
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Rick Wolff,
MR Zine | Op-Ed
August 25, 2010
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