by Richard Eskow | Aug 29, 2011 | Blog
When somebody you think pretty highly of does something that seems crazy, the fairest thing you can do is ask them "Why the hell did you do that?" Kinky Friedman's somebody I've followed for years, first as the bandleader of the Texas Jewboys and then as an...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 28, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform, Minimum Wage
A lot of people in the media are so afraid of offending anyone with controversial truths that they can't even tell the truth about the man whose holiday we're celebrating this weekend. Their coverage could give you the impression that the purpose of Martin Luther...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 25, 2011 | Blog
We've just learned about the Federal Reserve's extraordinary secret bailout of the country's big banks. We now know that the TARP bailout program was only the tip of the iceberg, and that financial institutions received a total of $1.2 trillion in loans and other...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 25, 2011 | Blog
The other day we had an interesting discussion of that secret Fed bailout on Thom Hartmann's TV program, The Big Picture. Here's the video.
by Richard Eskow | Aug 24, 2011 | Blog
Call it "Helpless President Lit." A recent Ezra Klein column is the latest in a growing genre which celebrates our Commander-in-Chief, not as a powerful leader, but as a perennial victim. It portrays him as someone who's powerless over other people's actions, and...
