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Progressive Breakfast - 11/2/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Health Care Advancing, Bit By Bit NYT offers optimistic update on health care legislation: "... President Obama’s arms-length strategy on health care appears to...
A Rich University's Mad Dash to Get Richer
Investing recklessness at Harvard is making 'the best and the brightest' look awfully silly — almost as silly as a nation that lets staggering quantities of wealth continue to concentrate. Wild chases after vast riches, last fall’s global meltdown reminded...
Failure is Their Only Option
Steve Benen asks a question about the Republican health care reform plan — or lack thereof — that I'm certain I've seen answered already. The House Republican leadership "guaranteed" that they would offer an alternative health care reform bill....
Progressive Breakfast: The Net Domestic Product
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Bill Scher is traveling; he will return Monday. Thursday's news that the nation's gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/30/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Bill Scher is traveling; he will return Monday. Thursday's news that the nation's gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third...
From Crash to Meltdown in 80 Years
It's was 80 years ago this week that the Crash of 1929 kicked off the Great Depression. Not quite 79 years later, the fall of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, sent the stock market into a meltdown precipitated by the crises of such Wall Street Giants as Bear...
Wall Street Pukes On Our Shoes
At the New Economy Conference, Leo Gerard of the United Steelworkers just said that deregulating Wall Street was like leaving a 3 year old in a candy store unsupervised for a day. When you come back the kid is stuffed full of candy, candy falling out of the pockets --...
Live Coverage of the Building The New Economy Conference
Progressive Breakfast - 10/29/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Building The New Economy Conference Today LIve audio stream and Twittering of the Building The New Economy conference, featuring, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Gov. Ed...
Big Oil Claims Climate Bill Would Shift Jobs Offshore, But Completely Ignores Border Tariff
At today's Senate hearing on the Kerry-Boxer clean energy jobs and climate protection bill, the oil refinery lobby claimed, "this legislation will export carbon dioxide e
