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Can You Figure Out What This Chart Means?
Whitney, Mike
Article
2016
The U.S. economy is in the throes of the lousiest recovery since World War 2. The so called monetary stimulus has failed to lift the economy out of the doldrums or produce the robust recovery that th...
Canadian News Synthesis Project - January 1975: Volume III Number 1
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1975
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Capitalism for Beginners
Lekachman, Robert; Van Loon, Borin
Book
1981
An amusing, soundly researched, and highly accessible illustrated book that tells you everything you want to know about capitalism.
The Crisis Beneath the Bailout: Against The Current vol. 137
Rasmus, Jack
Article
2008
In early September, 2008 the Department of Labor reported that the U.S. economy in August had lost another 84,000 jobs. This was followed on October 2 with an announcement that officially recorded Sep...
Detropia
Ewing, Heidi; Grady, Rachel
Film/Video
2012
A documentary on the city of Detroit and its woes, which are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base.
Devastating Crisis Unfolds: Against The Current vol. 132
Brenner, Bob
Article
2008
Bob Brenner, for the ATC editors. The current crisis could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have...
How Inequality Kills
Nasser, Alan
Article
2017
The Global March of Neoliberalism: The World Inequality Report 2018
Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
Hudson, Michael
Book
2015
In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and go...
Krisis
Pashalidou, Nina Maria; Katsaounis, Nikos
Film
2012
By 2010, Greece was in an economic crisis and the society and people were shown to be deeply affected by the country's state.
Looking Back -- and Ahead: Against The Current vol. 133
The Editors
Article
2008
The year 1968 stands out as one of those pivotal years on multiple political and cultural levels. Against the Current will devote considerable space to discussing what the upheavals of that year meant...
A New Phase of Economic Crisis: Against The Current vol. 135
Rasmus, Jack
Article
2008
In early AprilL 2008 the general consensus was that the U.S. economy had clearly fallen into recession. A long list of key economic indicators from November 2007 through March 2008 were all flashing r...
The Socialist Register 1979: Volume 16: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1979
A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
Socialist Register 1992: Volume 28: New World Order?
Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1992
Socialist Register 2012: Volume 48: The Crisis and the Left
Panitch, Leo; Albo, Gregory; Chibber, Vivek (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2012
Socialists and the Capitalist Recession
De Santos, Raphie; Husson, Michel; Katz, Claudio; Mandel, Ernest; et al
Book
2009
Anyone seeking to understand the ABCs of the meltdown would benefit greatly from reading this collection.
The Sub-Prime Market Crisis: Against The Current vol. 131
Prins, Nomi
Article
2007
It wasn't until I flew to the United Kingdom on Saturday, September 15th, that the globalized nature of the sub-prime contagion really hit home, as it were, for me. On my flight over, I grabbed a copy...
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Book
2008
A look at the effects of corporate Americ on the general populace, pointing out the tactic of side-tracking those who would protest onto more superficial issues.

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Recession led to 260k extra cancer deaths, experts claim
Radovitz, Jon Von
2016
Unemployment and austerity were associated with more than 260,000 extra deaths of cancer patients in countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD), a study has shown. Those c...