by Robert Reich | May 23, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, This Is The GOP
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll released Sunday finds Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in a statistical tie, with Trump leading Clinton 46 percent to 44 percent among registered voters. That’s an 11 percent swing against Clinton since March. A new NBC News/Wall...
by Robert Reich | May 2, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
Marissa Mayer tells us a lot about why Americans are so angry, and why anti-establishment fury has become the biggest single force in American politics today. Mayer is CEO of Yahoo. Yahoo’s stock lost about a third of its value last year, as the company went from...
by Robert Reich | Apr 20, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
Why is there so little discussion about one of Bernie Sanders’s most important proposals – to tax financial speculation? Buying and selling stocks and bonds in order to beat others who are buying and selling stocks and bonds is a giant zero-sum game that wastes...
by Robert Reich | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, This Is The GOP
[fve]https://youtu.be/5KiXBqCS_wg[/fve] The tax cuts for the rich proposed by the two leading Republican candidates for the presidency – Donald Trump and Ted Cruz – are larger, as a proportion of the government budget and the total economy, than any tax cuts ever...
by Robert Reich | Mar 3, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
Not day goes by, it seems, without the mainstream media bashing Berney Sanders’s economic plan – quoting certain economists as saying his numbers don’t add up. (The New York Times did it again just yesterday.) They’re wrong. You need to know the truth, and spread it....