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All You Really Need to Know About Banking Reform
Financial reform, as it is called, shouldn't be all that complicated. Break up the banks deemed "too big to fail," since that offends any possibility of market discipline and puts taxpayers on the hook for future bailouts. Crack down on gambling with other peoples'...
It Is Time To Put Our Foot Down: Ten Steps We Can Take to Stop Closing Factories and Eliminating Jobs
The economy is still getting worse more slowly. We lost "only" 36,000 jobs last month. We need to create 11 million new jobs just to get back to where we were before "free-market" conservatives took over our government and dismanted the protections and regulations...
This Jobs Bill Could Work
Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., introduced a bill today that is a meaningful response to the nation's jobs crisis. It still falls short of the need, but it would accomplish far more than the anemic measures that have been served up by Congress so far. The legislation...
Superwealthy Get Cranky When Asked To Help Reduce Deficit
Since I had the temerity to mention that the America's wealthiest heirs should pay their fair share on their inheritance windfalls to help reduce the deficit, their front groups have been very busy attacking me. Yesterday I noted some of lies the American Family...
Progressive Breakfast: Obama Grassroots v. Lobbyist Millions
Obama Heads To St. Louis As Lobbyists Launch Ad Blitz To Kill Health Care Reform St. Louis awaits "Trumanesque" address from Obama on health care today. St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "When Obama takes the stage at St. Charles High School before about 400 people this...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/10/2010
Obama Heads To St. Louis As Lobbyists Launch Ad Blitz To Kill Health Care Reform St. Louis awaits "Trumanesque" address from Obama on health care today. St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "When Obama takes the stage at St. Charles High School before about 400 people this...
Citizen's Posse Serves Warrant Against Health Insurers
Bernanke Pulls a Kanye On CFPA, Then Gets Sideswiped
Almost everyone knows that to "pull a Kanye" means to steal the limelight when it rightfully belongs elsewhere. With Sen. Dodd's suggestion that the Consumer Financial Protection Agency be housed in the Federal Reserve, it looked as if Ben Bernanke had successfully...
Limbaugh Endorses Socialist Paradise
So Rush Limbaugh has threatened to move to Costa Rica if health care reform passes. As Brian Docksteader wrote, the irony of this is almost too rich to believe. Given Rush's well-known proclivities, you have to wonder: Why Costa Rica? If he's looking for beaches, palm...
Superwealthy Try Rehash Of Estate Tax Lies To Avoid Helping Reduce Deficit
Yesterday I had the nerve to mention that the superwealthy opponents of the estate tax are deathly afraid that once the current law brings back the estate tax next year to a 55% tax rate and a $2M inheritance income threshold, Congress won't want to touch it because...
