by Mary Bottari | Mar 23, 2011 | Blog
The reign of lawlessness continues in Wisconsin. Last week, a local court issued a temporary restraining order blocking the implementation of Governor Scott Walker's radical proposal to do away with most collective bargaining rights for public workers and cripple...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 23, 2011 | Blog, Economy
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Monday unveiled what his office called a “pro-growth economic plan” in a speech at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. If the speech only exemplified one of the basic definitions of "cant"—"insincere or almost meaningless...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 22, 2011 | Blog, Economy
I was a guest on a segment of the Peter Schiff radio show this morning, guest-hosted today by Mike Pento. The show takes a libertarian/conservative point of view, and I welcomed the opportunity to contribute an alternative perspective. We need more like this to get a...
by Eric Lotke | Mar 22, 2011 | Blog
As the debate heats up over Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, I took a step out on my own. I got a divorce. I am no longer a wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank. First Wells Fargo acquired the bank I’d been banking in. Then...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 22, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Fukushima is "a very huge disaster that has caused very large damage at a nuclear power generation plant on a scale that we had not expected," according to the deputy director general of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. But the risk of disaster was easily...