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Will Anyone Be Punished For Citibank's $40 Billion Subprime Lie?
Finally, some good news on Wall Street accountability. A federal judge is holding up the SEC's effort to let Citigroup's top executives off the hook for misleading their own shareholders about $40 billion in subprime debt. If Citi executives did what the SEC says they...
Three Fundamental Differences Between Progressives and Conservatives, Pt. 2
Last week, I wrote this: The fundamental differences between the left and the right — between conservatives and progressives — comes down to how we answer three simple questions: "Can we?," "Should we?" and "What do we mean, 'We'?"...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/17/2010
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. McConnell: Obstruct More After Sen....
This Week, Call The Roll On Who Stands Up For Social Security
As you encounter congressional candidates who are out vote-hunting this week, as them a simple question: Will you pledge to oppose any cuts to Social Security benefits, including increasing the retirement age, and any effort to privatize Social Security? It's a simple...
One Reason Top End Taxes Must Be Raised
Billionaire Steve Schwarzman compares Obama's call for taxing private equity income as income, just like everyone else, a "war, like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/steven-schwarzman-obama-a_n_683178.html Currently...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/16/2010
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. Social Security Still Secure At 75...
Techno-Thriller: Why Was Goldman Sachs So Worried About One Nerdy Sentence?
It sounds like the plot to a dozen movies: Picture a corporation so powerful that its tentacles circle the globe and reach into the highest corridors of power. Yet a single sentence on an ex-employee's obscure website forces it to move into action. That sentence is so...
Go on gal, don't take me for no fool. I ain't gonna quit you, pretty mama, while the weather's cool. Around your back door, honey, I'm gonna creep. Just as long as you bring me two-and-a-half a week. I stood my corner, hey hey!
The Uh-Ohs: A Decade of Conservative Failure, Pt. 2
If you were among the wealthiest 1-2% of Americans, it was the best of times. For the rest of us, it was "The Uh-Ohs," a decade of conservative failure and its aftermath.
China Springs The Trap
China has a national economic/industrial policy and we don't. They create the conditions for key industries to thrive and we don't. They make sure all of the infrastructure, finance, supply chain, educational, legal, technical and policy elements are in place for an...
