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The Federal Reserve Board’s Plan to Kill Jobs
While there is an enormous amount of political debate over various imaginary job killers, the Federal Reserve Board is openly mapping out an actual job-killing strategy and drawing almost no attention at all for it.
Republicans, Have Mercy On Your Immigration Flip-Flopping Candidates.
Republicans, have mercy on your presidential candidates. Just get this immigration debate over with so your presidential candidates don't have to flip-flop anymore.
Progressive Breakfast
House To Try Again To Fund Homeland Security Republicans may surrender this week on funding Homeland Security. Politico: "...the GOP-controlled Senate will take the first step with a vote Monday on whether to head into formal negotiations with the House on financing...
The Fast-Track Fandango
Why can't we have a trade debate worthy of the reality we face? Unprecedented trade deficits have undermined America's working families. We need a new strategy, not another dishonest and corrupted debate.
There's No Such Thing As "Free" Markets
Voters are less familiar with—or think less about—the many government programs that the rich and powerful use to warp markets in their favor. Let us count the ways.
Wingnut Week In Review: Papa Bear Roars
Bombastic Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, affectionately dubbed “Papa Bear” by Stephen Colbert, formerly of “The Colbert Report,” is in so much trouble that he’s even defending President Obama. It’s that bad.
The Senate Blockbuster Showdown On Trade The Media Missed
Eight senators let the country know there is going to be a fight over fast track trade authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Sen. Bernie Sanders said, "Enough is enough. This country now is in a major race to the bottom."
Progressive Breakfast
Obama v. Warren on Trade Obama pushes trade agenda in local TV interviews. W. Post: "Among the television stations Obama spoke with was KGW in Portland, Ore., the home state of Sen. Ron Wyden, whom the White House views as a key Democratic ally on trade ... Wyden and...
The Real Social Security Crisis Is Income Inequality
The huge transfer of income and wealth from the middle class to the top 1 percent is not just a moral issue, but also a huge economic issue that affects Social Security to a significant degree, Sen. Bernie Sanders points out.
Going Off the Rails
Some 1.4 million gallons of oil spilled in U.S. rail accidents in 2013 — more than over the previous four decades combined. A record 141 of these accidents occurred in 2014. What will it take to pull the brakes on this recklessness?
