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Fareed Zakaria's "Greedy Consumers" & Hive Mind CEOs
Fareed Zakaria is an interesting writer who says some sensible things, as when he called the intensity of the war in Afghanistan "disproportionate" to the threat. But he also reflects the biases and distorted perceptions of a punditocratic subculture that continues to...
The Grip of the Old Economy
President Obama touted his National Export Initiative this week, boasting that in the first quarter of this year, exports were up 17% from a year ago. Increased exports abroad generate jobs at home. Given the failure of the Senate to pass badly needed jobs bills, the...
Too Old For A Job, Too Young For Medicare Or Social Security
Tell us your own story in the comments, please! Here is a fact: There. Are. No. Jobs. Well, there are approx. 10 "official" job-seekers for each job that opens up. (Remember the underemployed figure, known as "U-6" is 21.7% in California 16.7% nationally.) You have to...
Don't Let Goldman Sachs Off The Hook
When the nation's most prestigious investment banks found themselves on the verge of total annihilation in the fall of 2008, the most radical and effective government response was not the infamous $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. The wildest salvation...
Obama Announces Export Council, Reports On Export Progress
In his State of the Union speech President Obama announced the National Export Initiative, a campaign to double US exports within 5 years. Today he gave a progress report and announced the members of his Export Council, with a number of CEOs (and one labor leader)...
Progressive Breakfast: Can We Export Out Of This?
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. Prez Pushes Exports Today In Latest...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/7/2010
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. Prez Pushes Exports Today In Latest...
Do Democrats Want Toxic Campaign Cash From Goldman Sachs?
Heavy-hitting Wall Street political donors are withholding their money from the Democratic Party's campaign coffers, according to a Washington Post report making the rounds on Capitol Hill today. In a political environment in which almost no group is as publicly...
Q&A with Veteran Labor Organizer Stewart J. Acuff
Leo W. Gerard: Stewart, you talk about power in a book you’ve written with economist Dr. Richard A. Levins. You called the manual, “Getting America Back to Work.” What’s the relationship between power and getting people back to work? Stewart J. Acuff: A big part of...
If You Feed Them They Breed -- And Other Dehumanizing Conservative Idiocy We Should Ignore
The country is in an economic emergency. Unemployment -- especially long-term unemployment -- is at extremely high levels and the recovery is faltering. Conservatives are obstructing efforts to solve this because they believe it helps them in the November election. To...
