Blogs: An Economy for All


Eric Lotke's picture

New Unemployment, Old Solutions

Today’s unemployment data contain gloomy news. Gloomy, but expected. The interpretation of the data is even worse. more »

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Isaiah J. Poole's picture

Message To Energy Department: U.S. Greenbacks For U.S. Green Jobs

News of the potential use of U.S. more »

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Eric Lotke's picture

Green Shoots. For Whom?

Today’s “Productivity and Costs” data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics contain what looks like good news. But keep the cork in the bottles.

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Isaiah J. Poole's picture

Message To House: Don't Allow Mini-Madoffs

The financial reform effort was dealt a significant setback in the House Financial Services Committee today when the committee approved a regulatory bill (HR 3817)< more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Wall Street's War Against the Real Economy & We, the People

At a meeting with bloggers before last week's Building The New Economy conference, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka talked about how we have developed two economies, one real and one financial. more »

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Isaiah J. Poole's picture

Make Them Afraid Of Wall Street's Money

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Sam Pizzigati's picture

A Rich University's Mad Dash to Get Richer

Investing recklessness at Harvard is making 'the best and the brightest' look awfully silly — almost as silly as a nation that lets staggering quantities of wealth continue to concentrate.

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Isaiah J. Poole's picture

Progressive Breakfast: The Net Domestic Product

The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Bill Scher is traveling; he will return Monday.

Thursday's news that the nation's gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third quarter comes with a lot of asterisks. A few of them:

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Terrance Heath's picture

From Crash to Meltdown in 80 Years

It's was 80 years ago this week that the Crash of 1929 kicked off the Great Depression.

Not quite 79 years later, the fall of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, sent the stock market into a meltdown precipitated by the crises of such Wall Street Giants as Bear Stears and AIG, among others.

Comparisons between now and then are, of course, inevitable.

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John Surma's picture

A Case Study in Global Imbalances

The kind of global economic stress we are experiencing is bound to create tensions within the world trading system. Understandably, every company is working to improve its own position. But in countries and regions that are unconstrained by the due process requirements of the U. S. justice system, we have seen signs of trade actions that seriously undermine the global steel market. Nowhere are these destabilizing actions more apparent than in China.

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