by Dave Johnson | Apr 27, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney says government workers are paid too well and in general government is a bad thing. But he wants to run it. Romney made his fortune by buying companies, laying off the workers, and keeping the money they were making for himself. He apparently thinks...
by Bill Scher | Apr 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Wall Street’s Unpunished Crimes OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "... it was nothing short of astonishing to hear the Secretary of the Treasury assert yesterday that ... 'most financial crises are caused by a mix of stupidity and greed and recklessness...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 26, 2012 | Blog
Forgery. Perjury. Investor fraud. Bribery. Money laundering. The body of evidence against individuals at the nation’s biggest banks is overwhelming. Nothing speaks louder about the banks’ guilt than this evidence - nothing, that is, except the billions they’ve paid to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 26, 2012 | Blog
Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York attorney general who is co-chairing President Obama's investigative working group on the mortgage crisis, told members of the House Progressive Caucus that he is beginning to get the resources he needs to hold the people who caused...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 26, 2012 | Blog, Education
So the "general election has begun" proclaims The Hill, and the exhortations from the punditry are for candidates to either, shore up their base or move to the center. One interesting bit of advice, coming from more than one source, is for the candidates to "talk...
