by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 24, 2011 | Blog
To start your weekend on a boiling mad note, read what Talking Points Memo published this afternoon regarding the details of why Republicans bolted Thursday from the deficit-reduction talks being conducted by Vice President Joe Biden: Democrats want to close tax...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 24, 2011 | Blog
The Supreme Court's Dukes vs. Walmart, raising the bar for plaintiffs in class action suits, means workers who already have it bad in this economy probably won't have it any better, and won't be able to do much about it. Can't Win. Don't Try. The lesson Betty Dukes...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 24, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
President Obama today announced a new Advanced Manufacturing Partnership that will bring together industry, universities and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies. This is nuts-and-bolts government work, to help American manufacturing and American...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
I watched a Congressional hearing yesterday (webcast), examining why we need a national industrial strategy. There were a few pro-manufacturing voices. But in a surprise move, Republicans and representatives of Wall Street & giant multinationals opposed such a policy...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog
The Federal Reserve and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, should not be allowed to get away with what they did on Wednesday. What they did at the end of their Open Market Committee meeting was to essentially throw up their hands in the face of their legal responsibility to...
