by Digby | Jan 29, 2013 | The Sequester
I hope everyone understands that when Paul Ryan said they were going to leave "entitlements" alone and the sequester would take place that it was a form of political trash talk before the negotiation, right? Nobody really believes that either side will allow defense...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 29, 2013 | Blog
Last week, 11 European nations forged ahead to create a new tax while American Republicans walked backward into a no-new-tax trap. On Jan. 22, the European Union gave 11 member countries – including economic giants Germany and France – permission to institute a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Smart Talk On The Next Austerity Disaster OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage and Richard Eskow: "Mass unemployment, declining wages, and faltering growth suggests the United States has already suffered too much austerity, too soon. And yet the political...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog
Tim Geithner left office on Friday and the revisionism's already underway. By any objective measure except one, Geithner's tenure failed to achieve its goals. And that one success, in rescuing the mega-banks of Wall Street, may prove to be the undoing of Obama's...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 28, 2013 | Minimum Wage, The Sequester
The United States is in the midst of the most protracted unemployment crisis in modern history, and for vast segments of the population, the recession has never ended. Wages are still sinking; more than 20 million people are in need of full-time work. Yet, the...