by Leo Gerard | Dec 5, 2008 | Blog, Making it in America
In 1941, car manufacturer Willys-Overland demonstrated the strength and sturdiness of its new Army scout vehicle — the Jeep — to Congress by driving it up the U.S. Capitol steps. Invented and manufactured in the USA, the Jeep would become an icon of American...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 13, 2008 | Blog
Within hours of Barack Obama’s election, naysayers chastened caution. Don’t go too far, they inveighed. Build trust slowly with restrained, moderate, and gradual actions, they admonished. In other words: Start with piddling plans. Basically, they want to abort hope --...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 25, 2008 | Blog
Protestors disrupted a convention of mortgage financers in San Francisco this week, storming the stage as former Bush advisor Karl Rove spoke, heckling bankers with bullhorns and badgering a panel with demands for a foreclosure moratorium. Fear and frustration...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 8, 2008 | Blog
Sarah “Joe-Sixpack” Palin pulled her labor union roots out of the frozen Alaskan soil and started shaking them at normally union-allergic Republican crowds from the day John McCain announced her as his running mate. Recently, she redoubled her efforts to cast herself...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 7, 2008 | Blog
While the recently passed bailout bill may or may not help to stabilize the credit markets (and on Monday it looked as if it may have in fact made it worse) it is absolutely clear that it does nothing to address the fundamental cause of this crisis – declining home...
