by Robert Borosage | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog
Don't miss the Bill Moyers show tonight. He's got Simon Johnson, the former IMF economist and Rep. Marcy Kaptur looking at how Wall Street dominates Washington -- from the White House to Congress. Eyeopening stuff: Arianna Huffington published an excerpt from the...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 8, 2009 | Blog
Glenn Beck has captured national attention with his caustic poison. The aging right-wing troubadours -- Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly—still rouse the wingnuts and enforce discipline among Republican legislators. They've peddled the fantasies about ACORN and the...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 30, 2009 | Blog
"Vandalism" screams the cover of The Economist, depicting President Obama leaving an ice pick in the tire of free trade. (No racial overtones there; after all, as the president explained, he was black before he was elected.) When the president imposed...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 23, 2009 | Blog
The world economy is growing; stock markets are up; talk of recovery, not world depression, fills the business pages. As the leaders of the 20 leading economies gather in Pittsburgh this week, they might well feel the euphoria of someone who has survived a near-death...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 17, 2009 | Blog
Today the new Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, modeled after the New Deal-era Pecora Commission, begins its investigation into possible misconduct by the financial sector causing last year's market meltdown. Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert...