by Dave Johnson | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog
Here is the video of last night's launch of Rebuild the Dream campaign, with Van Jones. (If you want to skip the music parts, start at 9:15.) Watch Van Jones spell out "the three big lies" of the conservative narrative: 1) America is broke. 2) Asking the super rich to...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog, Economy
'Asset bubbles' have been roiling our economy ever since America's wealthy started supersizing three decades ago. But another bubble, this one enveloping those wealthy, may be just as essential to understand. America’s corporations, the latest stats show, have been...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog
Why are people still interested in what Jamie Dimon has to say? As CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Dimon presides over a serial corporate criminal whose long list of misbehaviors[1] got longer only last week. As an investment and economics "expert" he failed to anticipate...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
This is my presentation from last week's Netroots Nation panel session: Revitalizing Manufacturing: The Road to Renewed Job Growth. Click through for panel details and other panelists, here for a pdf of slides, including Jared Bernstein's. See below for video -- and...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog
It has been called the city that moved America; the city that spawned the sound of a generation. For decades, Detroit was the assembly line of the American Dream. Its auto factories produced the cars that made possible the suburban life that defined the American...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog
It was an accident of scheduling, but call it fate. As President Obama was meeting with 600 major donors from the gay and lesbian community in New York to raise money for his re-election campaign, three blocks away, Van Jones and the driving beat of the The...
