by Dave Johnson | May 11, 2011 | Blog
The On May 12 Coalition is holding actions in New York City tomorrow to hold big banks and corporations accountable for crashing our economy and asking them to pay their fair share to help get the country back on track. Mayor Bloomberg is asking for terrible budget...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 11, 2011 | Blog
Financial industry analysts are going ga-ga over the soaring cohorts of mega rich in China and India. But researchers at one influential global financial consulting group are calculating that the U.S. millionaire share of world millionaire wealth will actually...
by Dave Johnson | May 11, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner appeared this week on Charlie Rose. Watch as he brilliantly explains why we have to let China continue along its current path. Watching this brings to mind how he so brilliantly advocated for Wall Street and the giant banks. But who...
by Terrance Heath | May 11, 2011 | Blog
Remember when I said the tea party has the potential to be the GOP's psycho ex-girlfriend? Well, Dana Milbank's latest column — about tea party activists attacking John Boehner, Paul Ryan and the GOP for not killing the hostage tying an increase in the debt ceiling to...
by Richard Eskow | May 11, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
What do you do when the economy's a disaster, things are getting worse, and nobody seems to give gives a damn? What do you do? This country has been divided into two economies. One's the economy of Wall Street and corporate Manhattan, along with Washington's thriving...