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Financial Reform: It’s the Derivatives, Stupid.
Tricky auto loans didn't cause the financial meltdown on Wall Street. Unscrupulous payday lenders didn't cost taxpayers a $700 billion "troubled asset" bailout. So fussing about whether U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd's financial reform legislation contains an independent...
Progressive Breakfast: Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!
Strong Deficit Reduction Smooths Path To Sunday Health Care Vote House leaders post the health care bill online 72 hours before expected Sunday vote. W. Post: "House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) announced the weekend debate schedule, with a 72-hour march...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/19/2010
Strong Deficit Reduction Smooths Path To Sunday Health Care Vote House leaders post the health care bill online 72 hours before expected Sunday vote. W. Post: "House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) announced the weekend debate schedule, with a 72-hour march...
Tea Partiers: The (Distorted, Screaming) Face of Conservatism
This is one of those things you just have to see to believe. Chances are you've seen it posted elsewhere, but it bears replaying over and over and over again. Here's the face of conservatism today, for ya — mocking and screaming at a man with Parkinson's...
On Health Reform, Three Cheers for Kucinich (And Ann Coulter's Still Alive! Who Knew?)
The CBO now says health reform will cut the Federal deficit by $138 billion That's a win for the bill's backers, and should make it tougher for self-described 'fiscal conservatives' in the Democratic Party to vote against this bill. (No, let's re-frame that as a...
China's Currency Manipulation Manipulates The World
China's currency manipulation is a worldwide problem, not just a job-killer here. U.S. Ambassador Calls China’s Currency Stance ‘a Real Concern’, In a speech to students at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, the ambassador, Jon Huntsman, said that economic problems in the...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/18/2010
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. Health Care Bill Cuts Deficit $1.2...
Too Big to Succeed: Dodd's Proposal Creates a Cumbersome Bureaucracy
When President Obama asked a group of senior executives for suggestions on streamlining government, it's unlikely that any of them suggested layers of new bureaucracy, vague marching orders, or management by committee. Yet Sen. Dodd's 'compromise' financial reform...
Chinese Currency Manipulation: "Not A Small Issue"
The Chinese currency manipulation issue continues to make news. Economist Paul Krugman lays out the stakes, China is in effect imposing an anti-stimulus of that magnitude — which plausibly means 1.5 percent of GDP. This is not a small issue. Senators Schumer, Graham...
The False Luxury of Time To Wait
If you believe the buzz in Washington, this week could very well be "make or break" for getting
