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China Currency Manipulation Equals China Inflation
Schemes and scams unravel, usually badly. China has been manipulating its currency, causing economic imbalances on a scale the world has rarely if ever before seen. The consequences are causing inflation problems inside China. One way or another this is going to...
Set The Course Let’s Choose a Winner—American Workers
A national industrial/economic policy is a plan by a government to promote the growth of key strategic industries or sectors in a country. Examples: China has been developing their manufacturing sector and is now the largest exporter. India spent decades building up...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/24/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Social Security...
The Future of Aging Why Hardship Exemptions For Working Until Youre 69 Will Fail
Whatever the President says about Social Security in his State of the Union speech, the push to cut it will continue. A great deal of time, effort, and money has been expended to make sure that it does, and to promote a very limited set of policies for reducing...
Guns and Butter Americans Would Rather Cut Military Spending Than Social Security
Here's something else for the President to consider while he's drafting the Social Security portion of his State of the Union message: Yet another poll demonstrates the public's strong support for Social Security, and its strong opposition to benefit cuts. But this...
Set The Course Make The Case For Capping Carbon With GE
At a time when the American public is primarily anxious about the current state of the economy, and after the last Congress proved that the politics around climate policy are miserably and treacherously complicated, it wouldn't appear to make much sense for the...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/21/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Obama Less Trusted...
What Social Security Crisis
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Should GEs Jeffrey Immelt Really Be Leading Our Job Creation Strategy
There is no swifter way to alienate working class voters than to name an outsourcing CEO to lead your jobs strategy. Yet that’s exactly what President Obama is doing. General Electric CEO Jeffery Immelt has fooled the media and the White House into believing that he...
Obama's Less Trusted Than Bush On Social Security
Social Security Works has assembled a set of slides that illustrate the Democratic Party's striking decline in voter opinion on the issue of Social Security. They're all worth seeing, but one of them especially demands attention
