by Richard Eskow | Aug 29, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
How's this for a radical, anti-American statement? The Republican Party's draft platform mocks American workers' pensions as useless artifacts which were "born in an old industrial era beyond the memory of most Americans." Republicans talk about restoring American...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 29, 2012 | Blog
The presence of scandal-ridden accounting firms on Mitt Romney's fundraising list got me to thinking: What do they expect to get for their money? And why does the accounting profession seem to be so riddled with corruption? And it reminded me of something that...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 28, 2012 | Blog
"He who trusts in his riches will fall … He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind" - Proverbs 11 When Hurricane Gustav tormented Republicans during their 2008 convention, one of the cancellations caused by the storm was a speech from outgoing...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 24, 2012 | Blog, Too Big To Jail
Every day we rise and tell ourselves this will be a good day, free of that unique combination of predation, self-pity, mediocrity and disingenousness which characterizes the modern bank executive. And every day somebody proves us wrong. Today it's William B. "Bill"...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 20, 2012 | Blog
In the annals of Mitt Romney's days at Bain Capital, one story seems to have escaped our collective memory. It involves Bain's acquisition of a New York City drug store chain during Mitt Romney's tenure there, and the hiring of a new president who would turn out to...
