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Progressive Breakfast - 6/3/2010

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. Invest In America, Or Shortchange...

Liveblogging The Rating Agencies Hearing

Buffett is already defending Moody's with statements that appear to be reasonable, but are in fact completely incoherent. Here's what he says about the top brass at bailed out banks: "When society has to step in to save institutions . . . the CEO should go away...

Progressive Breakfast: Does Washington Care About Jobs?

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. "Changed Climate" Threatens Bold...

Progressive Breakfast - 6/2/2010

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. "Changed Climate" Threatens Bold...

Warren Buffett, Rating Agencies and Corruption

Today's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearing on credit rating agencies promises to shed quite a bit of light on one of the most profitable and corrupt businesses in Corporate America. Rating agencies score huge profits regardless of how accurate their ratings...

Tax Cuts Caused The Deficits, Therefore...

No serious person denies that Reagan's 1981 tax cuts and military increases threw the country into a pattern of borrowing and borrowing that we have not escaped. When Reagan took office the national debt was $995 billion. When Reagan left office it was $2.87 trillion...

Law and Order: AIG

President Obama's Department of Justice announced last week that there would be no indictments in the collapse of AIG, an event which led to a worldwide economic collapse and cost the American taxpayer trillions. As someone who once worked for AIG I was shocked, but...

Of "Epic Foolishness" And Epic Fails

The change agenda at America's Future NOW! REGISTER NOW for AFN 2010 Bob Herbert's latest New York Times column, "Our Epic Foolishness," could (and perhaps should) serve as the introduction to a book about how America got into the various messes we're in...

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