by Terrance Heath | Jan 11, 2013 | Blog
It's that time again. The folks at the Heritage Foundation (Jim DeMint's new perch) have published another "Index of Economic Freedom." I first encountered the index in April of 2010, when Heritage ranked Ireland in the top ten countries with the greatest degree of...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 11, 2013 | Making it in America
Washington frets about the budget deficit, which is money we owe mostly to each other and have spent on things we do for each other to make our lives better. But the trade deficit is money that actually leaves our economy, making us poorer and less able to make our...
by Digby | Jan 11, 2013 | Blog
It remains one of the strangest and saddest aspects of our current economic debates that nobody seems to care all that much about our still painfully high unemployment. And it's probably a lot higher than we know: In December, the Bureau of Labor Statistics counted...
by Bill Scher | Jan 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Disarm The GOP Hostage Bomb OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "It is time to defuse the hostage-taking bomb. Do not negotiate with hostage-takers – and that includes shutdown threats ... How long have we been governed through hostage-taking, threats,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 10, 2013 | Economy
The annual "State of American Business" speech delivered today by Thomas J. Donohoe, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was largely predictable and not particularly noteworthy. But it did contain one of those moments reminiscent of those oil company...
