by Richard Eskow | Jan 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
It may be the creepiest student competition in history. Foreclosure.Com's essay contest may be trivial compared to what Wall Street's doing to undermine our educational system and manipulate our thinking, but it reflects the same warped set of values. The Campaign for...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog
Tim Geithner left office on Friday and the revisionism's already underway. By any objective measure except one, Geithner's tenure failed to achieve its goals. And that one success, in rescuing the mega-banks of Wall Street, may prove to be the undoing of Obama's...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog
We needed heroes after the financial crisis. Instead we got bureaucrats, compromisers, and perhaps something much worse. Federal law enforcement officials, our "thin gray line" against banker crime, were charged with restoring the balance of justice and reducing the...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 25, 2013 | Chained CPI
Here's a "Washington insider" story that could affect every family in the country. Congressional newspaper The Hill reported Wednesday that Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., was considering using a special parliamentary maneuver to push a budget deal. But this wasn't just...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog
In his review of Jared Diamond's new book, David Brooks is appropriately horrified by the stories of tribal women who were left to die rather than be cared for by their communities. He's so horrified, in fact, that he seems to reject Diamond's core thesis that these...
