by Robert Borosage | Mar 25, 2009 | Blog
I discuss with American News Project's Harry Hanbury and Nick Penniman what's next for the populist uprising spurred by today's economic crisis. This video traces how progressives helped shaped the New Deal and the post-World War II recovery, and I talk about the...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 18, 2009 | Blog
Who stands in the way of the reforms vital to get us out of the deep hole we are in? Republicans, of course, have decided to be the party of "no," staking their future on President Obama's failure. But that isn't a surprise. The entrenched interests whose oxen get...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 11, 2009 | Blog
Last year we worried about homes below water; now it is the economy itself that is sinking. Warren Buffett says the U.S. economy has "fallen off a cliff." And, as bad as the U.S. is, the rest of the world is worse. Germany's exports have collapsed; Japan is in free...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 4, 2009 | Blog
It ain't easy. No use jokin'. Everything's broken."-Bob Dylan We can't go back to the old economy. That economy -- marked by booms and busts, Gilded Age inequality, declining wages, growing household debts, and unsustainable trade deficits -- didn't work very well for...
