by Dave Johnson | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Short-term gains for a few. Long-term harm to the rest of us. Again and again we have seen American industries exported, the plants closed, the jobs lost, and government officials just letting it happen. The workers in the other countries are almost always paid less...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog
Don't miss the Bill Moyers show tonight. He's got Simon Johnson, the former IMF economist and Rep. Marcy Kaptur looking at how Wall Street dominates Washington -- from the White House to Congress. Eyeopening stuff: Arianna Huffington published an excerpt from the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
There's more pessimism on the economic front that should bolster the case for more sustained action in Washington to pump-prime the economy. A panel of Wall Street Journal economists points to a prospect of sustained high unemployment for at least the next three to...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog
Wow. Break out the spatulas, and get ready to scrape the exploded brains of right-wingers off the ceiling, walls, etc. Apparently, President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. US President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee...
by Bill Scher | Oct 8, 2009 | Blog
After all year repeatedly citing Congressional Budget Office
