by Richard Eskow | Apr 7, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Last night the President took a lofty, almost disinterested stance regarding budget deadlock in Congress. He seemed to chastise Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner equally, focusing on the consequences of a shutdown and ignoring the...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 7, 2011 | Blog
Rep. Paul Ryan's getting a lot of attention for a chart he's using to publicize the new Republican budget: You know what's funny? I was just projecting the effect of that budget on the average retiree's household budget: I wish I were kidding, but I'm not. These are...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 5, 2011 | Blog
Back when I analyzed health plans and other benefits for a living, I asked a famous CEO what his goals were for the corporation's employee benefit plan. "I want to give them less and make them think it's more," he said. The new Republican budget proposes to radically...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 2, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Writers love coming up with absurd stories on April Fool's Day and then trying to pass them off as real news. So let's play a game: Which of these stories are real and which are just April Fool's Day pranks? Meet my friend Berkshire and his wife, Anne: A review of...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog, Economy
I think Alonya was suggesting at the end that I was being a downer about those job figures ... I believe the current slang term for that kind of thing is "buzz kill." Oh, well! For a change, all of the political negativity coming from my general vicinity was directed...
