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Tax Audits: IRS Gives Big Corporations a Pass
Big corporations still get away with it. A stunning new analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University shows how the IRS targets smaller corporations, while larger corporations that would yield more unpaid tax dollars go...
China Shocks World With Trade Deficit Claim. Heh.
Last month I wrote that China was expected to report a trade deficit right about now, just before the Obama administration was scheduled to make a declaration on whether China is manipulating its currency or not, China's Coming Surprise Announcement And My Bridge On...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/12/2010
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. Wall St. Reform Tops Agenda As...
'Zero Tolerance' on Workplace Slaughter?
Windfall rewards give CEOs an incentive to put worker lives at risk. To see all workers safe, our most recent mining tragedy reminds us, maybe we need to end those windfalls. In a perverse sort of way, CEOs like Don Blankenship, the chief executive at Massey Energy,...
Heritage Foundation and the "Luck" of the Irish
You wouldn't know it from the Heritage Foundation's 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, but the economic "luck of the Irish" ran out in 2008. Not only did the "Celtic Tiger" — as the Irish economy had been dubbed — lose its roar, but...
Hey CNN. There's This Guy, Krugman. Has Another View About The Deficit. Weird!
Unless we successfully pressure CNN to change course, tomorrow it will air Pete Peterson's anti-Social Security, anti-Medicare anti-public investment deficit propaganda film "I.O.U.S.A" along with additional propaganda "commentary" from people who work for the...
China Currency Shift: Getting Worse More Slowly
There are rumors that China will let its currency start to rise a tiny bit. China's currency undervalued by up to 40%, which means goods made there have as much as a 40% advantage coming out of the gate, even before their other rulebreaking trade schemes kick in....
URGENT: Stop CNN From Airing Deficit Propaganda
This weekend, CNN is giving four hours of free airtime to the leading propagandist fanning the flames of deficit hysteria, Pete Peterson, along with his lackeys. Bloggers and online activists are joining today to promote this action: Click here to demand CNN stop...
Liveblogging the Fannie Mae Hearing
2:00 FCIC Commissioners today have been much more aggressive than they've been in any hearing thus far. Watching Bill Thomas go after Fannie Mae exec Robert Levin on lobbying was really satisfying. But where was this tenacity yesterday, or in February? The way Thomas...
Progressive Breakfast: The Citi Never Weeps
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. Citigroup Testimony Highlights Need...
