by Dave Johnson | Nov 29, 2012 | Blog
House Speaker Boehner and Senate Minority leader each claimed this week that higher taxes on the wealthy will cause the "job creators" to cut jobs and "hurt growth." The Heritage Foundation makes specific claims about how this will happen. Let's take a look. The...
by Bernie Sanders | Nov 28, 2012 | Blog
There has been a lot of discussion about Congress enacting a “grand bargain” during the lame duck session of Congress. Many members of Congress have talked about using the plan put forward by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles as an outline for a “balanced” approach to...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 28, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
In the campaign Romney and Republicans promised to crack down on China's currency manipulation on the "first day." Yesterday the Obama administration again declined to label China as a currency manipulator, giving House Repubicans the opportunity to follow through on...
by Digby | Nov 28, 2012 | Blog
Here's a CNBC celebrity having a fit when Raul Grijalva suggests that Medicare shouldn't be cut: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7-SMK3GCcY&w=420] She seemed to be having a very hard time controlling herself. Meanwhile, let's have a little fact check,...
by Stan Collender | Nov 28, 2012 | Blog
Other than the fact that we’re now two weeks closer to its tax increases and spending cuts going into effect, not much has really changed about the fiscal cliff since my last column was published two weeks ago. Yes, we’ve heard reports about staff discussions. Yes,...
