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Starbucks Makes It In America
Starbucks has launched an initiative to restore American jobs, and as part of that effort is ordering mugs from an American company and helping revive an Ohio Rover town! The company is earning some great publicity for itself. Like this:
Apple And China - From Problem To Solution
Last week at Netroots Nation we talked about the problem of Apple (and all the others) manufacturing in China, costing our country jobs and dollars.
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: Resolve to Overturn 'Citizens United' Spreads Through the States
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: Resolve to Overturn 'Citizens United' Spreads Through the States
Some Argue Fiscal Cliff May Not Be All That Scary
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games.
Dimon Testifies - and the People Have a Few Questions
Wednesday is the day that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testifies before the Senate Banking Committee. He was called before the Committee (I believe the term is "invited") after it was disclosed that his bank lost billions of dollars in reckless and unregulated trades - trades which, as Dimon himself acknowledged, may have included criminal activity.
#nn12 Panel: Why Can't Apple Make Your iPhone in America?
Following are my prepared notes for my talk on the Netroots Nation panel, Why Can't Apple Make Your iPhone in America? except cleaned up to make me look better:
The Hard Cash Costs Of The Mental Recession
We give a hat tip to Paul Krugman for recalling the infamous 2008 statement by Phil Gramm, then-presidential candidate John McCain's top economic advisor, that what Krugman is now calling
As much as conservatives want to pretend otherwise, you can't have strong, healthy, prospering businesses without a big, strong government. The kinds of businesses that don't want a big, strong government are exactly the kinds of businesses that We, the People don't want. Conservatives like to say that taxes are theft. In fact it is tax cuts that are theft because they break a long-standing contract. Why else would We, the People have set up this system, if not for the benefit of We, the People?
You Can't Have Healthy Businesses Without Strong Government
Government Provides The Soil For Businesses To Thrive
Tax Cuts Are Theft
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