by Dave Johnson | Jan 8, 2013 | Economy
In DC the geniuses are busy with the billionaire agenda, fighting the things We, the People do to make our lives better. Meanwhile, in the real world yet another report is out that shows how one-sided trade deals with China and others are killing off our jobs and...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 7, 2013 | Blog
The Bush years gave America's rich new and unprecedented preferential treatment at tax time. The fiscal cliff deal enacted in the early moments of 2013 leaves that preferential treatment in place. Who won the New Year’s eve standoff over the “fiscal cliff”? In one...
by Digby | Jan 7, 2013 | Blog
Why Austerity May Be Worse Than We Thought--And Hard To Predict Taking an axe to a governmental budget can cut off growth in a most troubling way. Indeed, austerity has proved worse for a country than most economists suspected. That is, in essence, what a new IMF...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 7, 2013 | Blog
Senate Republicans have been using filibusters to block ... everything. You might not even know it, because the filibuster is no longer the talk-all-night event that most people expect. Democrats are trying to fix this by restoring the old "talk all night" rules. They...
by Bill Scher | Jan 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: The GOP Threat: Cut Social Security and Medicare or We’ll Kill The Economy. OurFuture.org's Roger Hickey: "Here we go again. Republicans are very clear about their latest extortion threat to the American people: Unless you cut Social Security and...
