by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
I just got off a "blogger call" with Elizabeth Warren, who President Obama just appointed as a Special Assistant in charge of setting up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I was able to ask her a question, and asked, "You are about to go up against the most...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
Who counts and who doesn't count? We hear so much about the "middle class" but rarely about the plight of the poor. And of course we hear again and again that the wealthy are "successful" and the "job-creators" who shouldn't be "punished" by being asked to give...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
Here is a tax trick you hear all the time: we shouldn't tax corporations because they just "pass the taxes along to consumers." Go to any of the usual anti-tax, anti-government sites and you'll see them trying to trick people with this. First of all, if companies...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 16, 2010 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Today the US Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk filed two complaints with the World Trade Organization (WTO). The first alleges that China is keeping American credit and debit card companies out of their electronic payment market. The second is a "dumping" (selling...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 15, 2010 | Blog
Update - please see RJ Eskow's post, As The Aging Stoop To Their Labors, Prosperous Pundits Lecture Them About Sacrifice Washington is talking about cutting Social Security for working people at the very same time it is talking about extending tax breaks for the...
