by Richard Eskow | Feb 28, 2012 | Blog
GE paid an effective tax rate of 2.3 percent or less over the past ten years. What did the government do for GE while it was paying little - and often no - taxes? Let's see: The government let it off with just a slap on the wrist - more than once - after it repeatedly...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 27, 2012 | Blog
If a blunder you committed cost your employer $4 million, how long would you stay employed? In America today, a CEO can cost his company $4 billion and still collect both a paycheck and a bonus. People in America get fired all the time. Break too many plates as a...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 27, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
Again and again (and again and again) we hear -- and learn the hard way -- that our "keep government out of it" approach to economic and manufacturing policy is hurting us. The countries that see themselves as countries and therefore have national strategies -- where...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 27, 2012 | Blog
I believe for every drop of rain that falls, A flower grows. Tom Jones Mitt Romney’s economic address at Ford Field in Detroit received more attention for the empty seats in the cavernous field than for the similarly vacant words in his address. But with the speech...
