by Richard Eskow | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog
Think of it as the story of two antagonists. One of them was an honest Senator who came to Washington to fight corruption. The other is an arrogant banker who's so sure of his untouchability that he wore "FBI" cufflinks when he made a public appearance last month. The...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 6, 2013 | Economy, The Sequester
Whom the gods would destroy, the old saying says, they first make mad. And there's no quicker way to become completely untethered than to read economic reports, including the latest one from the Congressional Budget Office, and then watch the political debate go on as...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 5, 2013 | Blog
Before we begin, let's take a moment to ponder the absurdity of a system in which a) for-profit corporations are allowed to call themselves "agencies"; b) the government - that is, us - gives these for-profit companies given trillion-dollar influence over the...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 4, 2013 | Blog
Alan Simpson's the lead pitchman for a billionaire- and corporate-funded initiative to slash Social Security that has subjected the public to years of nonstop haranguing and lecturing. The lecturing's gotten crude, too, as when Simpson insisted that anyone who...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
It's been four years since Wall Street ruined the economy, we're nearly nine million jobs behind where we need to be, and for years our politicians have debated how much less – not how much more – they'll do about it. Now we're about to be hit with another round of...
