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Progressive Breakfast - 2/7/2011
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: After Obama...
After Obama Speaks Will The Chamber Spend
President Barack Obama addresses the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today. In a preview of his remarks, the Washington Post reports that infrastructure investment will be a "likely point of focus for Obama" as it is a "rare point of agreement between business and labor."...
Democracy or Plutocracy A Chart
DEMOCRACYPLUTOCRACY We, the PeopleWealthy Few One Person One VoteOne Dollar One Vote GovernmentLimited Government MajoritySupermajority InformationPropaganda Taxes on the WealthyTax Cuts for the Wealthy BudgetsBudget Cuts Jobs programsBank Bailouts WelfareWarfare...
Peddling Poison for Fun and Profit
Wall Streeters made fortunes, the new official report on America's 2008 economic meltdown charges, defrauding the American public. They're still making fortunes — and this new official report is already sinking out of sight. A quarter-century ago, in 1986, the biggest...
Odd Jobs Report
Today's monthly jobs report was odd. There were few new jobs, but the unemplopyment rate dropped again as even more people gave up looking for work. This month they blame the weather for the lack of government action on job-creation or helping state and local...
If Ben Bernanke Hosted Our Super Bowl Party Instead of My Friend Pete
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke held a press conference today, and my friend Pete is holding a Super Bowl party this Sunday. This is the second year in a row that the Big Game will feature two pre-expansion teams, franchises with names that would've been...
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: Unemployment Isn't...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/4/2011
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: Unemployment Isn't...
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Conclusions
Clear and compelling: The Big Bank Catastrophe. Worth Reading And a brutal critique by Tom Adams and Yves Smith: The fraud was even worse than the Commission suggests. My own sense: There was massive and widespread fraud at all levels as the frenzy of the casino grew....
TV Appearance Talking Egyptian and US Economics on Russia Today
Here's a clip of our appearance on the Russia Today network to discuss the economies of Egypt and the United States. It felt very important, while pointing out the possibly surprising similarities, to also point out their greater hardships and dangers -...
