by Dave Johnson | Apr 21, 2014 | Blog
The housing market is supposedly recovering, yet the homeownership rate is dropping. Meanwhile rents in urban areas were already high but now are absolutely skyrocketing. What’s going on? As millions lost their homes many of the houses were and are being bought up by...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 18, 2014 | Conservatism
Does the right get a free pass to ignore laws? Is armed intimidation the way we decide which laws should be followed? Is conservative media whipping up the conditions for another Oklahoma City bombing? These questions are popping up with more and more frequency in...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog, Trade
LISTEN: Dave Johnson on the Rick Smith Show talks about China's currency manipulation. The Treasury Department released its "Semi-Annual Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies" this week, and went to great lengths to find a way not to...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
How's your job going – if you even have one? The odds are very, very high that you haven't seen a raise in a long time. Or maybe you were laid off and found a new job at half your old pay. They say this is the "new normal." Meanwhile, CEO pay just keeps climbing and...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 15, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
It's Tax Day! And right now Congress is working on Tax Day giveaways for the big corporations. When corporations avoid paying their fair share of taxes, the rest of us end up picking up the tab. So Happy Tax Day! Have you heard politicians screaming about "the...
