by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 20, 2015 | Awards Gala 2015, Climate
[fve]https://vimeo.com/142837745[/fve] While most of the political establishment fixates on the Washington gridlock conservatives have orchestrated to stymie efforts to switch to green energy and prevent climate change, a little-noticed announcement in New York last...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 15, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016
Unless you listened carefully, you might have missed the expanse of daylight between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders when asked about their plans for Social Security at the CNN Democratic debate Tuesday. It's a gap that is alarming people who are fighting to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 6, 2015 | Tax Reform
You've already heard, and will keep hearing incessantly as the presidential campaign heats up, the argument that U.S. multinational corporations are at a competitive disadvantage because of our high corporate tax rate. The latest takedown of that argument – and the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 5, 2015 | Financial Reform
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz today outlines the latest chapter in the war against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by the banking industry and its right-wing collaborators. It's in the form of a bill innocuously called the "Financial Product Safety...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 2, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
The surprisingly disappointing September unemployment report – 142,000 new jobs created compared to an expectation of more than 200,000 – should break once and for all two illusions about our ability to sustain a robust economy. The first illusion is that there is no...
