by Dave Johnson | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
What's going on with the stock market? Here's one piece of it. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued its World Economic Outlook last week, titled "Global Growth Disappoints, Pace of Recovery Uneven and Country-Specific." The title gives away the IMF's economic...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 14, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Cutting federal spending doesn't "save money" – certainly not the way conservatives in Congress and in the states have been doing it. If you cut the Internal Revenue Service budget, that obviously increases the deficit because it lowers the government's ability to...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 13, 2014 | Blog
"It is hard to understate the intensity of the response to the role of big money." Mike Lux, writing at The Huffington Post in "Four Weeks Out: What Will Be the Narrative of Election 2014?," echoes something that we have been pounding on here at OurFuture.org:...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Politicians who make a case for regular people get regular people to come out out to vote for them. Unfortunately, very few are making a case for regular people, with the result that many regular people ask, "Why bother to vote?" There is an American populist revival...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 8, 2014 | Conservatism
In advertising they say, "If you don't have anything to say about a product, sing about it." In this election, Republicans are singing a song of fear. In this ad the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) says Arizona's Ann Kirkpatrick wants to let...