by Robert Borosage | Apr 25, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney opened the general election campaign last night in Manchester, New Hampshire, using his acceptance speech to unleash a fierce attack on Barack Obama's "false promises and failed leadership." He said little about his own policies, preferring to contrast his...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 25, 2012 | Blog
Here’s the real debt crisis: student loan debt. Today, the average student graduates from college with a diploma and an anchor — $25,000 of debt. And if Congress doesn’t act, student loan interest rates will double on July 1. Don’t let Congress kick new graduates in...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 20, 2012 | Blog
The Washington Post's Ezra Klein takes issue with my argument -- detailed in The Zombie Rises: The Return of Simpson Bowles -- that the American elite consensus on austerity will take us down the same path that Europe is heading towards recession. But he misses the...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 20, 2012 | Blog
Two weeks ago we called on top housing finance regulator and Bush administration holdover Edward DeMarco to reduce mortgage principal for struggling homeowners. “Move or be removed,” we said. Thousands of you responded. But it’s not just us. The head of the Mortgage...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog
Take a good look at Europe—bloody riots in Athens and Madrid, rising unemployment, spreading poverty and suicide, and a deepening recession—because the current American elite consensus bizarrely wants to drive America down that same path. Europe's miseries come from...
