by Charles McMillion | Dec 17, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America
Twenty years ago global bankers and Republicans, then-President Clinton and a few economists insisted that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its unprecedented “free” trade model of radical property protection and trade deregulation would be an...
by Digby | Dec 10, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America, The Jobs Challenge
A nasty little Google boy gets mad and says what he really thinks: "Why don't you go to a city that can afford it? This is a city for the right people who can afford it. You can't afford it? You can leave. I'm sorry, get a better job. It's time for you to leave. "...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 6, 2013 | Democracy, Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
This is an urgent warning that the country's big-corporate elite are about to try to push something called "Fast Track" Trade Promotion Authority through Congress, in preparation for pushing through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) corporate "investor rights"...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 25, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
Show this one at Thanksgiving!! [fve]http://youtu.be/uUAWLqQHeRw[/fve] See What's Walmart's Business Secret? at the AFL-CIO blog. The six Walton heirs own about 50% of the company and have a combined wealth of $142 billion. This means they have more wealth than 42% of...
by Thom Hartmann | Nov 15, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
This week, Americans got a peek behind the curtain of the Trans Pacific Partnership, and what we found is frightening. On Thursday, Wikileaks published a complete draft of the “intellectual property rights” chapter of the TPP, and it poses a serious risk to free...
by Thom Hartmann | Nov 14, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America
You wouldn't know it by looking at your bank account, but our GDP growth rate was 2.8% in the third quarter of 2013. That's much higher than the long-term rate of 2%, but average Americans won't see any benefit from better growth. The latest figures from the Bureau of...
