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Wall Street Reform: Five Key Fights After The Bill Is Signed
Today, President Barack Obama will sign into law the first serious effort to regulate Wall Street in decades. The bill has much to be said for it, but the unfortunate truth is that it ducks several of the most critical reforms needed to protect our economy from banker...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/21/2010
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. Wall St. Reform Becomes Law Today...
Exposed!: Post 9/11 Privatization & Conservative Failure
Where's the Tea Party when you really need them? There's a bit of investigative reporting from the Washington Post that ought to have launched a Tea Party protest, complete with signs, slogans, and speeches (from the likes of Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, and Rand...
Wait 11 Years For A Jobs Recovery? I Don't Think So
Two depressing reports today show the depth of today's jobs emergency, both immediately and in the long term. The message that these two reports convey is clear: We are in a deeper hole than much of the rhetoric coming from either end of Pennsylvania Avenue suggests....
President Obama, Make Congress Stay In DC Until They Pass Jobs Legislation
The Constitution of the United States, Article II, Section 3: "He may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them..." We have a jobs emergency and the Congress has not acted. Almost everything the Senate does is being blocked by an...
USA Today, Gallup Can't Read Their Own Social Security Poll
A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds the most Americans do not support broad cuts in Social Security, either by raising the retirement age or the payroll tax. Oddly, that news is buried in the second-to-last paragraph of the USA Today article of the poll, and is not even...
We Need Leaders, Not Accountants
The following was originally published by Politico With more than 20 million people unemployed or underemployed, deflation looming, trade deficits rising and the economy staggering, American elites are hyperventilating about balancing the books. While most economists...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/20/2010
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. Cruel Irony: Teachers May Face...
Wall Street "Justice": AIG Evidence Raises the Question, "Where Are the Indictments?"
A disturbing pattern seems to be forming in Washington: Evidence of financial wrongdoing leads to financial settlements with large banking institutions, but with no apparent move to indict the individuals responsible. AIG agreed to the largest settlements in history,...
Why Democrats Can't Govern II
They forget to dance with those that brung them Consider the current tempest about the “poisonous relations” between Obama and business. Former Clintonista Roger Altman, a Democratic investment banker, offers advice on how to mend the fences to both sides of the...
