by Dave Johnson | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has once again added his voice to a growing movement to bring banking to the United States Postal Service (USPS). "I want to see our post office be reinvigorated," Sanders said in a Fusion interview this week with...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
Thursday's Clinton-bashing hearing in Congress carried with it that "frog in heating water" feeling. The water is boiling and the country is the frog. This is a period where the country has gone crazy. This has been slowly building since the ascendency of the...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 22, 2015 | Blog, Climate
Exxon and other fossil fuel companies may have committed a crime of enormous proportions, and more and more elected officials and others are demanding an investigation. The charge is that Exxon scientists and management knew since the late 1970s that the company's...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 21, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Financial Reform
How do we fix Wall Street, a.k.a. "the banks"? How do the candidates compare? This question came up in the first Democratic debate and there has been lots of online commentary on this since. The first place to look, of course, is CAF's Candidate Scorecard. "The...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 19, 2015 | Blog, Democracy, Election 2016
In contrast to the Republican clown shows they call debates, last Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate was serious and focused on policy. It let the public know that there are still adults at work trying to help deal with the country's real problems. It helped the...
