by Isaiah J. Poole | May 24, 2012 | Blog
Thursday's reports that unemployment claims are edging downward take on a slightly different cast after reading a complaint filed with the Labor Department detailing how a new Florida law is hindering unemployed people from claiming the benefits that are rightfully...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 18, 2012 | Blog
From the House Republicans whose leader, Speaker John Boehner, just three days ago claimed that "we can’t go on spending money we don’t have," and "our economy is stuck in large part because it’s stuck with debt," comes this: The House on Friday approved a sweeping...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 17, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
JPMorgan Chase’s $2 billion bad bet has made it crystal clear: The Wall Street banksters are still recklessly gambling with government-guaranteed money. And the too-big-to-fail banks are still too big. It is time for Congress to act. Tell Congress to break up the big...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 15, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Multibillonaire Peter G. Peterson's Fiscal Summit may have started with conciliatory nods toward bipartisanship, but it did not climax that way. And that had to have been by design. Peterson and the people who planned the Fiscal Summit had to have known when they...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 15, 2012 | Blog
The Peter G. Peterson Fiscal Summit started today with the dulcet tones of its billionaire conservative patron, Peter G. Peterson, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner singing in harmony. It was a melody fraught with danger. It was designed to be soothing, even with...
