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Speaker Pelosi Previews Address On Progressive Leadership For America's Future Now!
On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will address a nationwide gathering of progressives at America's Future Now! -- one day after the conference holds "The Great Debate: Progressive Strategy in the Obama Era," where attendees will discuss whether to fully back...
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...
Why the Deficit Dominates DC Thinking
Washington politicians are convinced that the public is demanding cuts in spending, even over creating jobs and restoring the economy. This pressure comes because much of the public believes that "Obama tripled the deficit." This has been the right's drumbeat for over...
Bob Herbert Today - And At AFN Next Week
Bob Herbert in the NY Times today, If a bank is too big to fail, it’s way too big to exist. If an oil well is too far beneath the sea to be plugged when something goes wrong, it’s too deep to be drilled in the first place. When are we going to stop behaving so...
