by Richard Eskow | Jun 8, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
[fve]http://youtu.be/OMxwFn_YCgE[/fve] A few months back the filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin got some bad news. The PBS funding that they had counted on to complete their documentary on campaign financing was being withdrawn. This setback came not long after PBS...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve was created to represent the economic sectors and portions of our population most directly affected by the central bank’s actions. Instead, it's comprised almost entirely of economists and lawyers who are associated with...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog
Earlier today we had a wide-ranging conversation with Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio about the fight to expand Social Security and the social safety net. We began by discussing the bill Sen. Brown has co-sponsored , which would lift the payroll tax cap (which means...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 2, 2014 | Blog
Conservatives in all corners of the globe must have felt their hearts sing, if only for a moment, when the Financial Times ran a piece entitled "Piketty findings undercut by errors." Sadly for them, the FT's claims proved untrue. But if you think that put an end to...
by Richard Eskow | May 29, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
Economists Amir Sufi and Atif Mian have been researching the housing crisis and its impact on the economy for more than six years. They have now written a book for general audiences entitled “House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How...
