by Richard Eskow | Jan 30, 2014 | Blog
Today, January 30, is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s birthday. In a week of mourning for Pete Seeger, that’s a good time to remember what Pete’s friend Woody Guthrie had to say in song about FDR: “This world was lucky to see him born.” The White House website’s biography of...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 30, 2014 | Financial Reform, State of the Union
How did Tuesday night’s State of the Union speech resonate on Wall Street? Sometimes the old saying is literally true: Silence is golden. Here are some of the words and phrases that did not appear in President Obama’s speech: “Wall Street,” “bank,” “regulation,”...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 28, 2014 | Progressive Vision
A banjo player dies at 94 and, for a moment, millions of graying Americans are young and idealistic again. Pete Seeger was a tall man, and he left a long shadow. He was born in 1919, in a nation that was born in 1776. That made him one-third as old as the United...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 27, 2014 | Conservatism
By now millions of people have heard that Silicon Valley billionaire Tom Perkins compared progressive political speech to Kristallnacht, the night of religious violence which led to the death of 91 Jews and paved the way politically for the Nazi Reich and the...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 24, 2014 | Blog
What do you give a Wall Street CEO who has presided over a decade of fraud and criminality, who directly supervised a unit which lost $6 billion through incompetent and illegal trading, and whose reign of crime and mismanagement has cost his institution $20 billion in...
