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MORNING MESSAGE: Fix The Trade Deficit. Fix The Economy. OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "Yet another report is out showing how the trade deficit is costing us millions of jobs and hurting our economy. This report has specific numbers: between 2.2 million and 4.7...
Fix The Trade Deficit, Fix The Economy.
Yet another report is out showing how the trade deficit is costing us millions of jobs and hurting our economy. This report has specific numbers: between 2.2 million and 4.7 million U.S. jobs, between 1 percent and 2.1 percent of the unemployment rate and a gross...
Sen. Kaufman On JPMorgan Chase: Private Lawsuit Found Evidence the Feds Didn't
Think of it as the story of two antagonists. One of them was an honest Senator who came to Washington to fight corruption. The other is an arrogant banker who's so sure of his untouchability that he wore "FBI" cufflinks when he made a public appearance last month. The...
The Wall Street Journal Thinks Losing 1 Million Jobs Is "Unscary"
The Wall Street Journal editorial board today is counseling Republicans that the looming across-the-board spending cuts known as the "sequester" are "unscary" and preferable to any compromise that would raise more revenue. Why should taking a meat ax to the federal...
87 Days Left to "Fix What Wall Street Broke" In Obama's First 100 Days
It's been 13 days since the Campaign for a Fair Settlement challenged President Obama to use the first 100 days of his term to "fix what Wall Street broke." Though Obama said his policies will, "speed relief to the hardest-hit homeowners," he has yet to act on many...
How the GOP Plans to Subvert, Buy and Obstruct the Vote In 2016
If you are reading this, you already know the national score from the November election. The Democrats won the presidency, added two seats in the Senate, and won eight seats in the House by over 500,000 votes – while remaining in the minority. But 2012 is old news. ...
The GOP and Obama's Second Term: Rage of an Unprivileged Class, Pt. 4 of 4
From the moment he was sworn in as president, what's bothered many conservatives most about Barack Obama was that he was a Black man who seemed pathologically incapable of "knowing his place." Conservatives from Peggy Noonan to (most recently) Grover Norquist have...
Progressive Breakfast
OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The short version of the CBO’s report is: Spending’s going down, but we desperately need jobs. So how did the President and Congress respond? They kept arguing about who’s got the better plan for making spending go down some more. If...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Six Things You Can’t Talk About in Washington OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The short version of the CBO’s report is: Spending’s going down, but we desperately need jobs. So how did the President and Congress respond? They kept arguing about who’s...
Progressive Breakfast
OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The short version of the CBO’s report is: Spending’s going down, but we desperately need jobs. So how did the President and Congress respond? They kept arguing about who’s got the better plan for making spending go down some more. If...
