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Sen. Durbin: Sense and Nonsense in the Fiscal Showdown
Senator Dick Durbin, Senate Majority Whip and one of President Obama’s closest allies, laid out his principles for a deal in the current fiscal showdown today in a speech at the Center for American Progress. The nuanced speech was a revealing mixture of common sense and nonsense.
Thom Hartmann Interview: The Secret World of Shadow Banking [video]
This Friday we appeared on Thom Hartmann's television show The Big Picture to discuss a new report on the dimly-lit world of shadow banking. Interesting stuff - we'll be writing something on the topic soon, too. Here's the video:...
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Five...
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Five...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Five Plutocracy-Busting Ideas from America’s Progressive Past OurFuture.org's Sam Pizzigati: "In my new book 'The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class,' I trace the incredible feats those...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Five Plutocracy-Busting Ideas from America’s Progressive Past OurFuture.org's Sam Pizzigati: "In my new book 'The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class,' I trace the incredible feats those...
Tell Congress We Want Jobs Not Cuts
The statisticians were right about the election. The scientists were right about the weather. And the economists are right about … the economy. 350 economists have signed a letter warning Congress, warning “too many in Washington are fixated on cutting public spending to balance the budget, not on how to put people back to work and get our economy going.
Five Plutocracy-Busting Ideas from America's Progressive Past
Americans today can take more than inspiration from the struggles against plutocracy that progressives waged years ago. They can take a host of still relevant — and cutting-edge — policy proposals.
Why Deficit Mongering Is B.S.: Krugman Edition
Just this: You’ve heard the story many times: Supposedly, any day now investors will lose faith in America’s ability to come to grips with its budget failures. When they do, there will be a run on Treasury bonds, interest rates will spike, and the U.S. economy will...
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Saying “Fiscal...
