by Dave Johnson | Aug 9, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Rebuild The Dream As I wrote earlier in Ten Years Ago We Were Paying Off The Nation's Debt. But Then We Elected Obama., the The American Dream Movement is rolling out their Contract for the American Dream. The Tea-Party-fascinated press is largely ignoring this, but...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 9, 2011 | Blog
Government is the great teacher of its people, by what it does and by what its leaders say. And no one has a larger pulpit than the President, as Barack Obama showed yesterday, when he summoned the media to broadcast comments as markets tanked across the world. The...
by Alan Jenkins | Aug 8, 2011 | Blog
The President has shown a talent for slowly but surely moving public opinion in the right direction on crucial policy points, then inexplicably giving those points away to his political opponents for little or nothing in return. According to last month’s Gallup poll,...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 8, 2011 | Blog
There's been a great deal of complaining today about Standard & Poor's downgrade of the US government's creditworthiness, but the time for talking about credit rating agencies is long past. There are four steps that can be taken now to end the rating corporations'...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 8, 2011 | Blog
Global economic turmoil is getting worse. Europe’s financial crisis now imperils Spain and Italy. The folly of premature austerity savages economies in Great Britain, Europe and, increasingly, the United States. China and the emerging economies are slowing down. This...
