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Americas Billion-Dollar-a-Year Men
Hedge fund honchos bet on stocks. They bet on gold. They bet on lawsuits. Most of all, they bet that the rest of us will never wise up to the awesome giveaway our current tax code ladles on them. Only in America can someone make $85 million in a year and feel...
Real Story or April Fools Joke Anne Berkshire-Hathaway and 6 Other Bizarre Economic Tales
Writers love coming up with absurd stories on April Fool's Day and then trying to pass them off as real news. So let's play a game: Which of these stories are real and which are just April Fool's Day pranks? Meet my friend Berkshire and his wife, Anne: A review of...
TV Appearance A Little Buzz Kill About Jobs Numbers Hedge Fund Billionaires and Other Econ Stuff
I think Alonya was suggesting at the end that I was being a downer about those job figures ... I believe the current slang term for that kind of thing is "buzz kill." Oh, well! For a change, all of the political negativity coming from my general vicinity was directed...
The Kidnappers Guide to Negotiating a Budget (or Why We Need an Independent Non-Party Movement)
Oh, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. Your party's symbol's an ass - a word that was on John Boehner's lips this week, and maybe some other people's too. Here's how it went down: First House Republicans proposed $32 billion in cuts. The President offered $6.5 billion....
March to Stop the Freeloaders
The nation’s greedy corporations and insatiable wealthy are fattening themselves on workers. There’s no trickle down. It’s the opposite; the rich have been sucking the economic lifeblood from the middle class for decades. When reckless Wall Street banksters get...
From Memphis to Madison The April 4 Stand For Economic Justice
"We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live." —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech in Memphis, Tenn., April 3, 1968 On April 4, we will be called on not to merely remember that Dr....
We Are One Will There Be Justice For Women Workers
On April 4, "We Are One" community-based actions will be taking place all over the country, in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination while trying to organize sanitation workers in Memphis, and in solidarity with working people all over America facing...
Wisconsin Governor Defies Court Prepares for Coronation
Wisconsin continues to spin out of control and a constitutional crisis looms as a judge this week again ordered Walker’s administration to halt implementation of his bill stripping Wisconsin public workers of collective bargaining rights. Walker's team moved to...
Republican Majority Leader Says Social Security Cannot Exist
By now you have heard that the Majority Leader Eric Cantor said that Social Security "cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be." At least they are out in the open about their plans. So Campaign for America's Future wants to do something about...
Public Sector Pink Slips Undercut Jobs Growth
Two steps forward, one step back. That's what we keep doing on the jobs front as long as we allow conservative budget austerity to drown out efforts to keep the jobs-producing machine revved up. The private sector generated a net increase of 230,000 jobs in March,...
