by Richard Eskow | Apr 26, 2012 | Blog
Forgery. Perjury. Investor fraud. Bribery. Money laundering. The body of evidence against individuals at the nation’s biggest banks is overwhelming. Nothing speaks louder about the banks’ guilt than this evidence - nothing, that is, except the billions they’ve paid to...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 26, 2012 | Blog
Genuine mental illness is a human tragedy that afflicts both the sufferer and those around him or her. Our healthcare system provides inadequate resources for its treatment,. It's no joking matter. Political craziness, on the other hand, is just crazy. It's sheer...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 26, 2012 | Blog
Click here to tell Congress: Don't Double Student Loan Interest Rates! Interest rates for student loans will double on July 1 unless Congress acts. That's outrageous - but the fiscal abuse of our nation's young people runs far deeper than that. An entire generation...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 24, 2012 | Blog
In the coming days and weeks we'll be hearing a lot of misinformation about the Trustees Report from the Social Security Administration. It's time to separate the myths from the realities: Myth: "Social Security and Medicare have a cost problem." Fact: Medicare has a...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 24, 2012 | Blog
Brace yourself for another round of ideologically-driven hysteria. It will be pushed by wealthy right-wing power brokers, aided and abetted by the entrenched power elite which Bill Clinton and his kind of Democrat have come to represent. They won't call it "hysteria,"...