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Tax Cuts For Rich Getting Back To Economy-Destroying "Normal"
You and I pay income tax on our income. But if your income comes from having really, really wealthy parents you are entitled to really, really special treatment because that is how democracy plutocracy works. In the news: Kyl: Deal on the estate tax in the offing,...
Trade Deficit Getting Back To Economy-Destroying "Normal"
What's the old saying about hose who cannot learn from history? Well, here we go again. In the news: Oil, Chinese imports boost U.S. trade deficit, Growing imports of oil and Chinese goods pushed the U.S. trade deficit to its highest level in 15 months in March. The...
Cornyn Cribs Talking Points From Disgraced JPMorgan Economist
The top Republican fundraiser in the Senate, John Cornyn of Texas, just gave a preposterous speech on Wall Street reform in which he pushed the plan recently promoted recently by disgraced J.P. Morgan Economist James Glassman. Cornyn is opposing the use of a...
Hey, Union-Busters: We’ll Give You Supermajority
Corporate CEOs, union-busting lawyers, and conservative politicians who pander to the rich condemned a National Mediation Board (NMB) Ruling this week. They complained that the NMB gave railway and airline workers the ability to obtain collective bargaining rights...
Progressive Breakfast: Will Clean Energy Follow Bank Reform?
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. Weakening Wall St. Reform...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/13/2010
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. Weakening Wall St. Reform...
Tom Carper Is Attacking Consumers and Defending Wall Street
There are two consumer protection amendments getting serious attention on the Senate floor this week, one of them positive, one of them incredibly destructive. Both revolve around the concept of "preemption"—the ability of federal regulators to block states from...
Usurious Payday Loans: Myths, Flawed Studies, and Solutions
The trade association for payday lenders objected to what they called my "name calling" in their blog yesterday ... then called me a "pig."Why? Because I quoted Aristotle and told a story about Jesus. Well, to be fair, I did suggest their industry might be "evil"...
Government Spending: JOBS Today, Payoffs For Years To Come
The commute between Baltimore and DC is the 4th-most congested route in the country. But a high-speed rail line would make this trip an 18-minute breeze (and also free up some of that congestion). They have been talking about building this rail line since 1994....
Progressive Breakfast: People 1, Fed 0
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. Fed Beaten, But Bank Battle Not...
