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Richard (RJ) Eskow

Richard (RJ) Eskow is a well-known blogger and writer, a former Wall Street executive, an experienced consultant, and a former musician. He has experience in health insurance and economics, occupational health, benefits, risk management, finance, and information technology. Richard has consulting experience in the US and over 20 countries.

The Republicans’ Civil War – And Everyone Else’s

Traditional Republicans are horrified by the overt misogyny and bigotry of Donald Trump. They prefer theirs slightly more discrete, or wrapped a flimsy veneer of faux irony.

October 13th, 2016
Richard (RJ) Eskow
October 13th, 2016
By Richard (RJ) Eskow
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cheer as he speaks during a campaign rally, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, in Ambridge, Penn.

Whom among us, upon hearing of the grave and perhaps existential threats now facing the Republican Party, is entirely immune to the siren song of schadenfreude? Who from the liberal classes can entirely resist the temptation, when reading about the bitter divisions now rending the GOP, to mutter, “Now that’s a god damn shame,” and then issue forth

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American Greed: Trump’s Economic Team Is A Who’s Who Of What’s Wrong

Hedge funds are represented. So is fracking. And tobacco. And guns. And banking. And steel. And there’s the guy who mismanaged Chrysler before it was rescued by a government intervention.

August 10th, 2016
Richard (RJ) Eskow
August 10th, 2016
By Richard (RJ) Eskow
Donald Trump

“I hear America singing,” Walt Whitman wrote, “the varied carols I hear.” Donald Trump hears America singing, too. But where Whitman heard men and women, masons and carpenters, Trump hears only the unvarying monotone of rich white males like himself. Trump’s tone-deafness was in full effect last week, when he announced his team of economic

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Who’s Fighting For Public Workers?

Sometimes you have to step back a few paces to see how much conservatism has distorted the public debate. Case in point: employment. Somehow the right has managed to stigmatize public-sector jobs so effectively that only politicians of rare and admirable courage are willing to defend them. Unfortunately, those politicians seems to be in short […]

May 7th, 2014
Richard (RJ) Eskow
May 7th, 2014
By Richard (RJ) Eskow

Sometimes you have to step back a few paces to see how much conservatism has distorted the public debate. Case in point: employment. Somehow the right has managed to stigmatize public-sector jobs so effectively that only politicians of rare and admirable courage are willing to defend them. Unfortunately, those politicians seems to be in short

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