by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 6, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Updated 8:47 a.m. — Today's unemployment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics will be closely watched for its political impact on the presidential race. But it is not the numbers that will be most consequential. What will determine whether President Obama will...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: The Phony "Generational War": It's Like the Hunger Games, But With Old People Ourfuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Like the Hunger Games, this spectacle only distracts us from the real economic injustices in our society. In an economy where most people's...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: The Tea Party's 1776 Schtick Sam Pizzigati on OurFuture.org: "The Founders, claimed Tea Party types, wouldn’t abide government interference in their lives. And neither should we. … No new taxes. Ever. Not even on the super rich. Forget that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 29, 2012 | Blog, Economy
It looks as if Congress got our message on the need to pass, without right-wing poison pills, a two-year transportation jobs bill. Our essential demand was that the House adopt a bipartisan bill passed by the Senate, rather than an ideologically extreme and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 28, 2012 | Blog
Economists Paul Krugman and Richard Layard, the latter of the London School of Economics, today posted a "Manifesto for Economic Sense" that lays out a sound framework for reviving the global economy. "I’ve been arguing for a long time that policy makers have...