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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...
Why Democrats Can't Govern I
They’d rather switch than fight. Consider. Elizabeth Warren, brilliant Harvard Law Professor, stalwart defender of America’s beleagued middle class, championed the Consumer Financial Protection Agency as essential to protecting consumers from financial fraud and...
Standing With The Unemployed
Today's image from the Rose Garden was a potent one: President Obama, standing with three of America's long-term jobless, calling on Congress to end the Republican filibuster of unemployment benefits and calling out Senate conservatives for their hypocrisy. In today's...
Netroots Nation Panel: The 2010 Elections: Channeling the Power of Jobs, Populism and the Angry Voter
Will you be at Netroots Nation in Las Vegas later this week? I will be on a panel, The 2010 Elections: Channeling the Power of Jobs, Populism and the Angry Voter, Thursday at 10:30am. Come on by and attend the panel! Here is the complete description: The 2010...
Republicans Kiss the Rich; Diss the Jobless
A brutal competition pits worker against worker continually now in this country. Five unemployed people vie with each other for each available job. It’s like a cruel game of musical chairs, with five desperate competitors for one seat. Workers who’ve lost cars to...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/19/2010
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. Jobless Aid Extension Expected To...
Move Over, Climate Change Deniers
Make room for a new right-wing assault on scientific research. In the cross-hairs this time: the massive epidemiological evidence on inequality's horrific toll on our health and overall well-being. Just over three decades ago, in 1979, an obscure research paper began...
Paying A Premium In China
Over the weekend the San Jose News carried a story, Made in China, bought in China — for more, describing some of the barriers Chinese consumers face when buying goods made by non-Chinese companies -- even if the goods are made in China, The laptop computer Luo...
Obama Blows Up The Gulf: An Inquiry Into Conspiracy Theories, Part I
You've heard the latest one, right? President Obama -- or maybe it was Obama working hand-in-glove with BP -- deliberately blew up the Deepwater Horizon, sent 11 workers to their deaths, destroyed the country's biggest fishery, and smeared the coasts of five states...
