by | Aug 18, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Robert Reich will be a featured speaker at the Take Back the American Dream conference, convening in Washington D.C., from October 3 to 5. The following was originally published at RobertReich.com. The President is sounding like a fighter these days. He even says...
by Bill Scher | Aug 17, 2011 | Blog
In his first Iowa presidential campaign swing, Gov. Rick Perry made a bizarre and baseless accusation that the Obama admininstration was going to force farmers to get a commercial licenses if they drive their tractors across public roads. But perhaps even more...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 17, 2011 | Blog
Back in my corporate days I sat in a boardroom with one of the most powerful and fearsome CEOs in the country. He had called in the executives that designed his employee benefits program and asked them to propose changes to the corporation's retirement and health...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 16, 2011 | Blog
The old folks used to say money was "the root of all evil." Anyone watching our economy over the last few years might be tempted to say that "evil is the root of all money," or to paraphrase that old John Lennon lyric about God and say that "Money is a concept by...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 15, 2011 | Blog
According to reports, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to announce today that his appointees to the super committee Gang of 12 will be Sens. John Kerry, Patty Murray and Max Baucus. Reid apparently has chosen not to appoint Sens. Bernie Sanders or Sherrod Brown...