by Richard Eskow | Jun 30, 2011 | Blog, Chained CPI
Do you hear a noise like power saws cutting away at your Social Security benefits? That's the sound of the politicians working on the "Chain Gang." They're promoting the "chained CPI," Washington's latest gimmick for tricking voters and cutting their hard-earned...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 29, 2011 | Blog
Republicans are perpetrating a fraud. They say they're concerned about reducing government deficits. But you don't need to look at how they treat all of the country's biggest corporations (which is extremely well) or even how they kowtow to its richest 400 families,...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 28, 2011 | Blog
How broken is today's political debate? The only politician standing up for most Republican voters on today’s most burning political issue is. … a Socialist. The question is whether we reduce the deficit only through spending cuts, or also by raising taxes on the...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog
Why are people still interested in what Jamie Dimon has to say? As CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Dimon presides over a serial corporate criminal whose long list of misbehaviors[1] got longer only last week. As an investment and economics "expert" he failed to anticipate...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 22, 2011 | Blog
t's one of modern political life's strange ironies that defending Social Security and Medicare is considered an "old people's issue." Old people are doing just fine with these programs, thank you very much -- at least so far. Anti-government hawks like Alan Simpson...
