by Roger Hickey | Nov 20, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Winning Issues for 2014
Election 2014 was a sad replay of 2010. And it didn't have to be that way. In early summer 2010, three progressive economic activists – myself, Dean Baker, and Robert Kuttner – met with Obama political adviser David Axelrod in his tiny office in the White House, steps...
by Roger Hickey | Sep 15, 2014 | Blog, Trade
The subject was the two major trade agreements that elites in both U.S. political parties are negotiating with the corporate elites in other countries: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) (also known as TTIP). The event...
by Roger Hickey | Aug 6, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
Yesterday afternoon the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch reported the news: “Walgreen Stock Tumbles on Report It Won’t Invert.” Citing unnamed sources (and Sky News), the bulletin reported that Walgreens has decided not to “invert” the company’s nationality to become...
by Roger Hickey | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog
Today's Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report finds payroll employment increased by 209,000 in July, slightly slower growth than last month, and the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 6.2 percent. Coming after this week’s GDP report that found the economy was...
by Roger Hickey | Jul 14, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 with a pledge to end the recession and then build a 21st-century, full-employment economy. His program: invest big time in America's transportation and energy infrastructure - and in education and training. Today, Americans...