by Robert Borosage | Nov 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s back. Another manufactured budget crisis. Another threatened government shutdown. Another failed negotiation. And, like Freddy Krueger springing from your nightmares to lay waste with his bladed glove, another Nightmare on Elm Street round of sequestration...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 15, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Financial Reform
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold – William Butler Yeats Washington is frozen even before winter, with the fierce Tea Party resistance to President Obama’s re-election producing...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 8, 2013 | Blog
The headline jobs number of the Bureau of Labor Statistics October jobs report --204,000 new jobs – is higher than expected, given that the report covers the time of the government shutdown. Although the report notes that furloughed federal workers were largely...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 5, 2013 | Blog
On November 6, Elizabeth Warren will do a star turn before 400 progressive leaders, activists and legislators at the annual awards gala sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future. Her prominence is a tribute to her stunningly rapid ascension as a leader of what...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 4, 2013 | Budget Talks
Washington is girding for another bruising budget crisis. Agreement is needed for funding the government by mid-January to avoid another shutdown. The debt ceiling must be lifted by February to avoid default. The last shutdown ended only with an agreement on the...
