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1、WorldSocialistWebSitewsws.orgAlecturebyNickBeamsTheWorldEconomicCrisis:AMarxistAnalysisThefollowingisthelecturedeliveredbyNickBeams,Some533,000jobswerelostinNovember—theworstnationalsecretaryoftheSocialistEqualityParty(Austra-monthlydeclinesinceDecember1974—withpredictionslia)andamemberoftheInte
2、rnationalEditorialBoardofthatlossesinDecemberwillbeevengreater.AtleastonetheWorldSocialistWebSite,toaudiencesinPerth,quarterofallUSbusinessesplantoreduceemploymentMelbourneandSydneyinNovemberandDecember,nextyear.ThemayorofChicago,RichardDaley,recently2008.warnedof“huge”layoffsintherestoftheyear,
3、compar-ingtoday’s“frighteningeconomy”tothatoftheDepressionItisnowclearthatthegreatestfinancialcrisissincetheyearsofthe1930s.GreatDepressionisonthevergeofbecomingthedeepestWithunemploymentrisingandhomepricescontinuingglobalslumpsincetheeconomiccatastropheofthe1930s.toslide—some12millionhomesintheU
4、SaresaidtobeWecouldspendtheentiretimeavailableforthislecture“underwater”,thatis,worthlessthanthemortgagesonsimplyenumeratingthemyriadexpressionsofthiscrisisthem—consumerspendinghasdived.andexaminingtheirfar-reachingimplications.IproposeUSconsumptionspending,whichcomprisesaround70heretodealonlywi
5、thsomeofthemostsignificant.percentofgrossdomesticproduct,fellby3percentintheOnNovember24,BloombergNewsreportedthatafterthirdquarter.Accordingtoasurveyofeconomistsconduct-the$306billionbailoutoftheUSbankCitigroup,organ-edbyBloomberg,itwillfallbyafurther2.9percentintheisedatmidnightthepreviousday,t
6、heUSgovernmenthadfourthquarterand1.3percentinthefirstquarterof2009.nowcommitteditselftoprovidingmorethan$7.76trillionConsumerspendinghasneverdeclinedforthreequarterstothefinancialinstitutionsandbanks.Thisamountwasinarowduringtheentirepost-WorldWarIIperiod.theequivalentofhalftheAmericangrossdomesti
7、cproductConsumerpricesinOctoberfellby1percent,thebiggest(GDP),or$24,000foreveryman,womanandchildinthemonthlydropsince1947.Butinsteadoflowerinflationpro-US.vidingaboosttofinancialmarkets,ithadthereverseef-Within24hours,however,
