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The Stimulus Worked But Was Not Enough
Before I start this post, let's look at the actual situation. The economy is terrible, people are really hurting, they have been holding out and are starting to drop off the map. There are signs that with the stimulus fading things are starting to turn back down. But...
The Elephant In The Foreclosure Fraud Room Second Liens
There’s been plenty of recent media attention to the prospect of investor lawsuits over fraudulent mortgages and mortgage securities. But investor lawsuits against mortgage servicers could be even more damaging than these other lines of legal inquiry. The four largest...
The Big Biz Behind GOPs Small Gov
The following was originally published in Politico. Republicans dub their congressional challengers the Young Guns, who proclaim a reborn conservative fealty to balanced budgets, small government and free markets. At the same time, their campaigns are fueled by what...
Backdoor Bailout Tea Party Fakeout The GOPs Secret 90 Billion Gift to Wall Street
GOP candidates are making a point of running against "bailouts" this year. Yet even as they rail about rescuing big banks, they're working on a plan that would slip those same banks an estimated $90 billion in taxpayer money ... and that's just in the first ten years....
Fascist America Is This Election The Next Turn
In August 2009, I wrote a piece titled Fascist America: Are We There Yet? that sparked much discussion on both the left and right ends of the blogosphere. In it, I argued that -- according to the best scholarship on how fascist regimes emerge -- America was on a path...
Top 10 Crazy Things Conservatives Say Social Security Edition
It's been 20 months since Barack Obama was inaugurated, and five years since George Bush's attempt to privatize Social Security were completely rejected by the public. How have conservatives reacted to their decades-long futile attempt to destroy the popular pillar of...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/22/2010
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. How Far Will a GOP Congress Go?...
Progressive Breakfast What Government Will The GOP Gut
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. How Far Will a GOP Congress Go?...
The Reagan Test Are We Better Off Than Two Years Ago Indisputably Yes
Yesterday, the White House released another sharp "White House Whiteboard" video featuring economic advisor Austan Goolsbee clearly explaining how the Recovery Act and additional legislation successfully blunted the recession and put us back on the path of positive...
The Media Says Youre Not A Likely Voter Prove Them Wrong
Are you progressive? Young? Person of color? Well, then the pollsters say you are not a "likely voter." And the media thinks if you are not a pollster-approved "likely voter" – even though the pollsters themselves can't agree what exactly makes you a pollster-approved...
