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Progressive Breakfast - 6/8/2010
AFN Day 2 Preview: Making Change Watch live video at www.ourfuture.org/now. Key sessions today... 7:30 AM: "Breakfast and Big Banks" with Simon Johnson and Rob Johnson (Liveblog of panel from OurFuture.org's Zach Carter, for late risers) 8:30 AM: "Making Change" with...
Liveblogging Simon Johnson and Robert Johnson at America's Future Now!
8:40 Terrific question from Mary Bottari. Everyone says they believe in higher capital requirements-- even bankers-- but so far, all of the negotiations regarding new capital requirements are leading to very small adjustments, rather than significant changes. The...
PM Update: Top Tweets From Day 1 Of #AFN10
Below are the top Twitter posts from Day One of the America's Future Now! conference, compiled by Terrance Heath for our daily "PM Update" blog roundup email. You can follow and react to the conference action on Twitter by searching for the hashtag #afn10. @livlylife...
No Debating This: "Hope Is Not Enough"
The centerpiece of the first day of the America's Future Now! conference was expected to be a debate between representatives of two camps within the progressive movement: those who are supporters of President Obama who say the movement needs to show him more support...
Liveblogging in AFN: Financial Reform Panel Discussion
We're here at AFN - the America's Future Now conference - liveblogging a session called "Curbing Wall Street: Strategies Going Forward." It's a subject close to our heart. The panelists are Heather McGhee from Demos, Heather Booth from Americans for Financial Reform,...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/7/2010
As the America's Future Now! conference convenes from today through Wednesday, Progressive Breakfast will preview key events for attendees and for those who want to watch the live video stream of selected sessions at www.ourfuture.org/now, in addition to the...
Bank Reform Bait and Switch
When the Senate bank reform legislation passed in May, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it sent the message to Wall Street "no longer can you recklessly gamble away other people's money." The bill told Main Street "you no longer have to fear that your savings,...
Stocks Drop
Disappointing jobs report sends stocks tumbling, Stocks tumbled Friday after the Labor Department said hiring remains weak and Hungary became the latest European country to report its economy is in crisis. Interest rates dropped as investors moved their money into the...
New Jobless Data: Without Census, it's 10 Percent Unemployment
The new unemployment data are out and the headlines are all wrong. The headlines report unemployment of 9.7 percent in May, down a tick from 9.9 percent in April. It’s good news but it misses the point. Nonfarm employment grew by 431,000 last month. That’s nice, but...
Is Long-Term Unemployment America's Future?
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