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Progressive Breakfast - 9/20/2010
Angry Rich Dig In To Protect Their Tax Cut Windfalls Treas. Sec. Geithner makes small biz pitch for letting Bush tax cuts expire on the wealthiest, in USA Today interview: "What everybody agrees on is, we should extend what we call the middle-class tax cuts. But they...
One Decade Down One Decade Wasted
The 21st century has opened with a decade that has seen the vast majority of Americans go backwards economically. Just-released Census stats tell that tale — but not the whole income story. The U.S. Census Bureau last week closed the book on the first decade of...
The Week Congress Began to Challenge China
What a difference a week makes. Just last week, the Beijing government and outsourcers thought they could run out the clock and avoid a long overdue legislative reckoning on China's currency manipulation, which serves as a drag on global growth, a siphon for American...
Warren Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning Elizabeth W and the Bloggers
Elizabeth Warren's first phone call after being named to her new White House position was to a group of progressive bloggers. Is that significant? Maybe not, but it certainly looks like Warren's appointment, and the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection...
Elizabeth Warren Reassures Consumers They Will Be Protected
I just got off a "blogger call" with Elizabeth Warren, who President Obama just appointed as a Special Assistant in charge of setting up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I was able to ask her a question, and asked, "You are about to go up against the most...
Listening To Conservatives Is Making Us Poor And Poorer
Who counts and who doesn't count? We hear so much about the "middle class" but rarely about the plight of the poor. And of course we hear again and again that the wealthy are "successful" and the "job-creators" who shouldn't be "punished" by being asked to give...
Relight My Fire Energizing The Rising American Electorate
The New York Times today is publishing yet again news about an important Democratic Party constituency, this time union members, threatening to sit on its hands in the November elections, giving Republicans a clear shot at a takeover of at least one house of Congress....
Kuttner on CNBC Attacks Austerity Economics
The contrast between an aggressive policy of jump-starting growth and putting Americans back to work and the old, failed trickle-down economics formula was on sharp display Thursday in a mini-debate on CNBC Thursday between Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect and...
Tax Tricks - Do Corporations Pass Taxes On To Customers?
This tax trick is based on a popular assumption that businesses can just raise prices whenever they want to. But a well-run business is already charging what they should charge for their product or service.
Conservatives Protect Rich From Class Warfare Except The Rich Who Embrace Clean Energy
As the President and congressional leaders propose letting the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year, conservatives in Congress are screaming "class warfare!" Of course, if establishing different tax rates for people with different incomes...
