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...
by Dave Johnson | May 11, 2011 | Blog
Digby writes, in The GOP Wish List, that Democrats are practically begging Republicans to make demands using the country's urgent need for a debt ceiling increase as a hostage, And why not? As long as the Democrats are pretending that they have to do whatever the...
by | May 10, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The Washington Post once again showed why it is known as "Fox on 15th Street," running an editorial with the subhead, "tackling the specter of structural unemployment," which essentially offers nothing to address the problem. The piece got off to a...
