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President Kickstarts Mortgage Reform Debate Obama draws line in housing before over 30-year fixed rate mortgage. NYT: "The president praised a bipartisan Senate effort to replace Fannie and Freddie with a system that would charge lenders for explicit government...
Low-Wage Workers, Exploited By Your Tax Dollars
McDonald’s really stepped in it this summer when the fast food empire created a budget for its underpaid employees to help them make ends meet on the low wages they bring home after flipping burgers all week.
Ever Wonder When The Tea Party's Demand To Defund Obamacare Started?
I've referred back to this post so many times since it first went up more than two years ago that I almost have to apologize for doing it again.
Almost, but not really, and especially not this time.
The Deficit Is Down By Half but Politifact Says It's Growing
The blogosphere is talking about how Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor was caught in an outright falsehood about the country's deficit, and how PolitiFact backed him up.
Bennett-gate And The Politics Of Grading Schools
Last week's midair disintegration of a high-flying apparatchik in the movement known as education "reform" is still making headlines in local press and the national media. Tony Bennett was a hero of the national movement bent on reshaping public education along the...
Which Jeff Bezos is Buying the Washington Post?
Now this is interesting. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, bought the Washington Post for $250 million after the newspaper went up for sale in what was described as a "highly secret" process.
Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Shrank In June
The enormous, humongous, vast, staggering, unbelievable, job-sucking, economy-sucking US trade deficit shrank to "only" $34.2 billion from a revised $44.1 billion in May. Exports of US goods and petroleum were up, imports of petroleum and consumer goods were down....
GOP Plan to Beat Itself Up
Saturday began Congress’ traditional five-week, late-summer sojourn during which members engage in the customary sipping of mint juleps, kissing of fat cat donors and, oh yeah, jawing with select constituents. Since this Congress is on track to be the least productive...
Progressive Breakfast
Obama Backs Privatizing Mortgage Guarantees President Obama sides with ending Fannie Mae (AP): "President Barack Obama, seeking to buffer taxpayers from future housing market downturns, will urge Congress this week to back bipartisan efforts to shutter Fannie Mae and...
Detroit Is the Front Line
The campaign against Detroit is the latest battle in a long war against the American social contract. For that war to succeed, millions of Americans must be convinced to see their fellow citizens – working people, retired people, students, the poor.
