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The Not-So-Loyal Opposition
In the debt-ceiling debate Republicans are holding the country hostage again, demanding that the country shift to a radical pro-big-corporate/big-wealth agenda as the ransom. At the same time the Tea Partiers say don't raise the debt limit, period, and let the country...
The Global Debt Give the Big Boys the Bill
The world's ultra rich, those 103,000 deep pockets with at least $30 million to invest, could afford to pay off the entire national debt of the world's biggest deadbeat nations without having to sacrifice a single Rolls or Bentley. Sober central bankers the world over...
Absolute MUST-WATCH For All Progressives
Here is the video of last night's launch of Rebuild the Dream campaign, with Van Jones. (If you want to skip the music parts, start at 9:15.) Watch Van Jones spell out "the three big lies" of the conservative narrative: 1) America is broke. 2) Asking the super rich to...
Our Double Bubble of Economic Trouble
'Asset bubbles' have been roiling our economy ever since America's wealthy started supersizing three decades ago. But another bubble, this one enveloping those wealthy, may be just as essential to understand. America’s corporations, the latest stats show, have been...
Jamie Didnt Know The Tragic Legacy of JPMorgan Chases CEO
Why are people still interested in what Jamie Dimon has to say? As CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Dimon presides over a serial corporate criminal whose long list of misbehaviors[1] got longer only last week. As an investment and economics "expert" he failed to anticipate...
How Free Trade Made Democracy A Disadvantage
The story of America: We fought a wealthy powerful few who had all the say and didn’t let us have a say. We won and made a country where We, the People made the decisions and share the benefits.
Detroit Rebuilding the Dream
It has been called the city that moved America; the city that spawned the sound of a generation. For decades, Detroit was the assembly line of the American Dream. Its auto factories produced the cars that made possible the suburban life that defined the American...
Taking Back The American Dream Us Not The Politicians
It was an accident of scheduling, but call it fate. As President Obama was meeting with 600 major donors from the gay and lesbian community in New York to raise money for his re-election campaign, three blocks away, Van Jones and the driving beat of the The...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/27/2011
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: Good Jobs Tour...
Americas Economy Held Hostage — To Save A Private Jet Tax Break
To start your weekend on a boiling mad note, read what Talking Points Memo published this afternoon regarding the details of why Republicans bolted Thursday from the deficit-reduction talks being conducted by Vice President Joe Biden: Democrats want to close tax...
