by Richard Eskow | Jan 24, 2014 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The “TPP,” or Trans-Pacific Partnership, is our nation’s newest proposed trade deal. It was negotiated without democratic input, and they’re trying to ram it through Congress the same way. Like NAFTA before it, the TPP would kill jobs. It would also cause lasting harm...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 22, 2014 | Democracy
When the President of the United States delivers his State of the Union message next week, he'll be speaking to the wealthiest Congress in history. What does it mean for a representative democracy when most of its representatives are insulated from the real-world...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 21, 2014 | Financial Reform
Have you heard? Goldman Sachs is "a shell of its former self.” Fortunately for its executives, this “shell” earned $8.91 billion in 2013, just a few short years after its leaders mismanaged it into the ground as its bankers committed serial fraud. There’s no...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 16, 2014 | Conservatism
When you look too long into the Abyss, said Nietzsche, the Abyss looks into you. “And,” adds comedian Brother Theodore, “neither one of us likes what we see.” That’s what the economic pronouncements of Republican politicians are like nowadays. Instead of a governing...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 13, 2014 | Retirement Security
Democrats have been pleading with President Obama not to cut Social Security for years. Until now, most of the public pleas have come from Democratic voters. Now they’re coming from Democratic senators. You can’t blame them. In 2010 polls showed that Democrats blew a...
