Alternative Visions - From Silicon Valley Bank to Larger Banking Crisis?17 March 2023 Dr. Rasmus gives an update on US and global banking instability in the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank a week ago this friday. What exactly happened at Silicon Valley Bank and is that process occurring elsewhere? What is the role of the Federal Reserve in causing and precipitating the c...00:56:50
Alternative Visions - Silicon Valley Bank Collapses—Canary in the Financial Coal Mine?13 March 2023Dr.Rasmus discusses the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank in California in last 24 hrs and what it means for the Tech sector and potential financial instability. Stocks & bond mkts plummet in response. Fear of uncertain contagion effects over the weekend. 250 companies with potential asset lo...00:59:05
Alternative Visions - Social Security Under Attack—Again! Here Comes Austerity Policy06 March 2023In today’s show Dr. Rasmus discusses the dimensions of the current attack on the social security system taking shape behind the curtain of the Debt Ceiling negotiations and just before Biden releases his final budget proposals for 2023 next week (listen to our next week’s Alternative Visions show on...00:59:33
Alternative Visions - Ukraine: Revisiting ’10 Reasons Why the US May Want Russia to Invade Ukraine’ Article, January 202227 February 2023Dr. Rasmus revisits his article of January 2022 in which he predicted reasons why the US wanted Russia to invade Ukraine and why the invasion of February 24, 2022 happened. The show initially discusses the past year’s sanctions on Russia and its economic effects (and lack thereof) on the Russian eco...01:00:12
Alternative Visions - Ukraine: Revisiting ’10 Reasons Why the US May Want Russia to Invade Ukraine’ Article, January 202224 February 2023 Dr. Rasmus revisits his article of January 2022 in which he predicted reasons why the US wanted Russia to invade Ukraine and why the invasion of February 24, 2022 happened. The show initially discusses the past year’s sanctions on Russia and its economic effects (and lack thereof) on the Russian ec...01:00:12
Alternative Visions - Is Inflation Really Slowing?20 February 2023 Dr. Rasmus takes a deep look at last week’s latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) inflation reports. A detailed summary of his view of the various supply forces causing inflation and demand forces. Why inflation remains mostly supply side driven, not demand driven, and wh...00:59:37
Alternative Visions - Fact-Checking & Debunking Biden’s State of the Union Speech13 February 2023this week’s show is dedicating to debunking various claims Biden made in his State of the Union speech last week. Topics include claims of 12 million jobs created, unemployment rate at 50 yr. low, inflation, taxes and national debt. An explanation of Biden’s claims his 3 big investment bills passed ...01:00:07
Alternative Visions - Jobs and the Fed06 February 2023The Federal Reserve raised rates again last week. Financial markets interpreted the 0.25 bps raise, the lowest in the past year, as evidence the Fed will stop raising and start lowering rates again by summer 2023. But the Fed has said over and over it is targeting the jobs market for evidence that r...00:59:51
Alternative Visions - US GDP 2022 Analysis31 January 2023Dr. Rasmus reviews the details of the just announced advance report on US GDP for 2022 and its 4th quarter. After a contraction throughout the first six months of 2022, the US economy ‘recovered’ at only a 2.9% rate in 4th quarter after a meager 3.2% in third quarter. For the entire year US GDP regi...00:58:40
Alternative Visions - Long-Term Global Trends in the Era of Neoliberal Capitalism Decline23 January 2023 In today’s show Dr. Rasmus describes and discusses the major trends of the past four decades of the era of Neoliberal capitalism—in a recap of his January 14 presentation to the 28th annual Rosa Luxemburg conference held last week in Berlin. Rasmus explains how Neoliberal era global capitalism, whi...00:59:46
