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Conservatives Are Clueless On Jobs
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is the Republican Party's latest effort at putting forward a credible economic ideologist. His recent interview with Ezra Klein reveals this effort as a complete failure. Ryan's views about the financial sector completely contradict his...
The State Aid Vote Today Is Not About The Deficit
The Senate is expected to vote today on providing $26 billion in aid to fiscally distressed states and cities. The vote is about many things. Jobs. Health care. Tax fairness. But it's not about the deficit. Why? Because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has completely...
Exporting Jobs Is Not “Trade.” It Evades Democracy's Protections
We, the People have fought hard to build and strengthen our democracy. We built up laws and institutions and protections. It has been a particularly hard fight to build a middle class with weekends off, good wages, worker protections and some degree of protection of...
Tax Cuts Leave Nothing Behind -- Infrastructure Investment Leaves Behind Infrastructure
Actually, the title kind of says it all, no? If we spend money on tax cuts, the next year we only have debt and pay interest on the debt. For a clear example, just look at the damage the Bush tax cuts have done to the country. They left behind worse than nothing -- we...
Alan Greenspan: Stopped Clock of the U.S. Economy
Even a stopped clock, the saying goes, is right twice a day. Taken figuratively, it means that even the people who have been most disastrously, abysmally wrong can occasionally get something damn near right. In that sense, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan may be...
Progressive Breakfast: Week Of Filibusters?
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. State Aid Fight Renews Today, Tax...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/2/2010
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. State Aid Fight Renews Today, Tax...
Should Vanity Candidacies Have Us Worried?
A new study says super-rich candidates who personally bankroll their own campaigns almost always lose. But that, unfortunately, doesn't make the rest of us winners. The ticker on billionaire Meg Whitman’s personal outlays for her California gubernatorial...
The Strengthen Social Security Campaign
Social Security is once again under attack. Time after time Social Security has come under attack. Do you remember the Bush "privatization" campaign a few years ago? Each time the attack uses a different myth, repeated over and over. Then, in between attacks, the...
Where Are The Prosecutions? SEC Lets Citi Execs Go Free After $40 Billion Subprime Lie
What is the penalty for bankers who tell $40 billion lies? Somewhere between nothing and a rounding-error on your bonus. The SEC just hit two Citigroup executives with fines for concealing $40 billion in subprime mortgage debt from investors back in 2007. The biggest...
