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Reagan Already Did The "Grand Bargain" (And No One Cared)
Today, The Week published my essay "Why Obama's Legacy Doesn't Need a Grand Bargain." While austerity ideologues like Alan Simpson are insisting that President needs a "grand bargain" -- swapping entitlement reform for tax reform -- to have a great historical legacy,...
Will The Sequester Doom Obama's Agenda?
With apologies to Victor Hugo, apparently nothing in Washington is as powerful as a bad idea whose time has come — or at least, a bad idea no one in Washington has the political will or ability to stop. The sequester is one such idea. Born from the ashes of the...
Lesson From Cyprus: Watch Your Bank
There is a lesson from the Cyprus situation: If you are a large depositor you need to watch your bank. You can’t just assume someone will bail out the banks — and you. The big banks have been able to keep governments from reigning them in, while getting governments to bail them out. That game is over.
Some Bailouts Seldom Ever Get Noticed
All across Corporate America, top execs are feathering their own nests at the expense of their workers. The French seem to have a better idea.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: 147 People OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Anthropologist Robin Dunbar tried to find out how many people the typical person 'really knows.' ... Dunbar concluded that the optimum number for a network of human acquaintances was 147.5 ... Economist Simon...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: 147 People OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Anthropologist Robin Dunbar tried to find out how many people the typical person 'really knows.' ... Dunbar concluded that the optimum number for a network of human acquaintances was 147.5 ... Economist Simon...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: 147 People OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Anthropologist Robin Dunbar tried to find out how many people the typical person 'really knows.' ... Dunbar concluded that the optimum number for a network of human acquaintances was 147.5 ... Economist Simon...
147 People
Can 147 people perpetuate economic injustice - and make it even worse? Can they subvert the workings of democracy, both abroad and here in the United States? Can 147 people hijack the global economy, plunder the environment, build a world for themselves that serves...
Economic Terrorism Is No Way To Run A Country.
Republicans are already plotting their next opportunity to take our nation hostage. At his weekly press conference, John Boehner said the GOP will refuse to raise the debt ceiling in May, if the president doesn't agree to more spending cuts. President Obama already agreed to cuts in the fiscal cliff deal totaling $1.5 trillion over the next decade. And the sequester will cut an additional $1.2 trillion over that same period. But, that's not enough for Republicans.
Don’t be Fooled by Misleading Report Calling for Chained CPI
The Peterson syndicate has just released another volley in their campaign to undermine Congressional support for Social Security – this time a report from its Moment of Truth arm entitled “Measuring Up: The Case for the Chained CPI.” It makes a series of specious...
