by Robert Borosage | Jun 6, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
That Gov. Scott Walker survived the recall in Wisconsin is a tragic setback for the stunning citizen’s movement that challenged his extremist agenda in Wisconsin. Its implications are likely to be exaggerated by the right, and underplayed by progressives. Here are...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 5, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Everyone is talking jobs and saying nothing. The inadequate recovery is sputtering and no one is doing anything. In the war on unemployment, no one has picked up a gun. We’re going through the motions, waiting for the misery to ratchet up, the cities to blow,...
by Robert Borosage | May 17, 2012 | Blog, Economy
The dire threat facing America, according to Mitt Romney and Republicans this week, is debt, not mass unemployment. We face "a prairie fire of debt," Mitt Romney warned in Iowa. Debt is "a grave threat to freedom," intoned House Speaker John Boehner in Washington,...
by Robert Borosage | May 10, 2012 | Blog
Europeans across the continent are rising up against austerity policies — turning out politicians who enforce them, no matter what their party allegiance. Yet even as the European public rejects austerity, Washington elites increasingly favor it. If pursued, however,...
by Robert Borosage | May 10, 2012 | Blog
I know you are asking today, "How long will it take?".... I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth crushed to earth will rise again. How long? Not long, because no lie can live...
