by Robert Borosage | Jan 14, 2011 | Blog
Central to the Tea Party revolt was a fierce reaction against the bailout of the big banks. Will the Republican Congress now spit that sentiment in the eye and push through another bailout, this time by overturning centuries of property law and nationalizing what has...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 12, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
How does America dig out of the hole we are in? Surely the focus must be on first principles: how do we recreate an economy that works for working people? With the right talking about a return to the principles of the Constitution, it is worth remembering how...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 11, 2011 | Blog
Simon Johnson, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is a principled conservative who understands how financial oligopolies can loot a nation. He's been warning about the inadequacy of financial reforms in relation to the big banks. In a...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 7, 2011 | Blog
Bill Daley is an experienced corporate lobbyist, a skilled strategist, and a smart operator. That’s presumably why he was hired. But it is bizarre to say that “few Americans can boast the breadth of experience that Bill brings to the job,” as the president did. Or to...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 2, 2011 | Blog
Nicholas Kristof has important piece in NYT, entitled Equality, A True Soul Food He summarizes the striking work that shows how corrosive extreme inequality is not simply to society, but to the health of individuals themselves.Extreme Inequality, he writes, feeds a...
