by Richard Eskow | Aug 25, 2011 | Blog
We've just learned about the Federal Reserve's extraordinary secret bailout of the country's big banks. We now know that the TARP bailout program was only the tip of the iceberg, and that financial institutions received a total of $1.2 trillion in loans and other...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 25, 2011 | Blog
The other day we had an interesting discussion of that secret Fed bailout on Thom Hartmann's TV program, The Big Picture. Here's the video.
by Bill Scher | Aug 25, 2011 | Blog
The latest bold stroke for the growing American Dream movement is this new ad campaign from Democracy for America: Don't Kill The Dream. The DFA campaign -- based at DontKillTheDream.com -- targets obstructionist Republicans who are standing the way of legislation...
by | Aug 24, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The following is an excerpt from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka's address to the United Steelworkers' convention on August 17, 2011. Click here for the full transcript. Brothers and sisters, most of us in this hall still have the good fortune to live a middle-class...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 24, 2011 | Blog
Call it "Helpless President Lit." A recent Ezra Klein column is the latest in a growing genre which celebrates our Commander-in-Chief, not as a powerful leader, but as a perennial victim. It portrays him as someone who's powerless over other people's actions, and...
