by Alan Jenkins | May 3, 2011 | Blog
So I’m trying to convince my wife that we should raise chickens in our back yard—it’s a suburban Green Acres thing, you might not understand. She has been, shall we say, cool to the idea, despite my promises of fresh eggs, cute chicks, and benefits to the environment....
by Richard Eskow | May 2, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Before President Obama announced Bin Laden's death the big topic in Washington was the deficit. Pundits and politicians alike eagerly anticipated a possible "bi-partisan" budget-cutting deal forged by "selfless" Republicans and Democrats. Deficits will be the hot...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 2, 2011 | Blog
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said on Sunday that the so-called "Gang of Six"—three Democratic and three Republican senators trying to forge a deficit-reduction deal—has made "enormous progress" toward its goal. Don't...
by Dave Johnson | May 2, 2011 | Blog
Republicans took the unemployed hostage and won huge tax cuts for the rich that greatly worsened the deficits. Then they took the government hostage, threatening to shut it down if they didn't get what they wanted, and won big concessions. Now they are threatening to...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 1, 2011 | Blog
America's top bankers and CEOs don't have any more talent than millions of other Americans. They do have, two timely new data dumps remind us, plenty of generous friends in pivotal places. We Americans, former Reagan White House budget director David Stockman told a...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 30, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
The President's plane touched down at Tuscaloosa Regional Airport at 10 am this morning, local time. That's Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. These are the moments that bring us together as a nation, and as people. Just like 9/11 did, before people used it to divide us. I...
