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When Lessons From Education Reform Go Unlearned
One good thing you can say about 2011 is that it is a year in which lots of wrong-headed undertakings finally came to their ignominious conclusions -- including, among others, the Iraq War, the Gadhafi regime, the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, and "The Oprah...
That 335 Million BofA Settlement The Good The Bad And The Very Ugly
The Obama Administration announced a $335 million settlement deal with Bank of America to settle charges of discriminatory lending practices. Here is, in ascending order of importance, the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Justice Department deserves praise for...
For 2012 Lets Restore Our Industrial Commons
David Brancaccio's Marketplace story Tuesday, Decline of Kodak offers lessons for U.S. business traced the decline of Kodak and the loss of Rochester, NY's good, middle-class jobs to Kodak's failure to tend its "industrial commons." This is a national problem. For...
Gotta Fix Trade
Today's GDP report shows slow growth. It isn't declining growth so technically is not a recession, but not enough growth to lead to job gains. U.S. Economy Grew at a 2% Rate in the Third Quarter, The United States economy grew at an annual rate of 2 percent in the...
Consensus Grows Confront China On Trade
In the day-to-day news about trade problems with China the bigger picture can get lost. America is giving up its competitive position in industries of the present and future and it is costing us. Even the people you would think would defend "free trade" are coming to...
Break Up Bank of America Before it Breaks Us
On Monday, Bank of America (BofA) stocks briefly traded for under $5. Yes, you could buy a share of BofA for less than the noxious debit card fee they tried to force down your throat. BofA is massive, with assets equivalent to 15 percent of U.S. GDP. So why is it...
Will Public Outrage Finally Force the President and the States to Prosecute Outlaw Bankers
The President has adopted the language of the 99%, and it's paying off for him. He's surged from a position slightly behind Mitt Romney in last month'sCNN polling to a 52%-45% lead against the Republican this week. While other factors were involved, his new rhetoric...
Where Theres a We Theres a Way Pt 1
Sometimes my brain finds connections the strangest, seemingly most disparate stories among the many I read online every day. Two years ago, I wrote a rather longish blog post titled "Reclaiming 'We'." It was partly inspired by NY Times columnist Thom Friedman's...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/21/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: GOP, Basta! Stop...
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: GOP, Basta! Stop...
