by Robert Borosage | Mar 16, 2011 | Blog
What's striking in the debate over America’s budget deficits isn’t the stridency of the anti-government Right. That’s expected and they don’t deviate from script. No, most impressive is the steely strength of a conventional wisdom that is flat out wrong. In its...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 15, 2011 | Blog
God save us from sentences like this one: "Don't look now, but an adult conversation has begun on the federal budget deficit." If we've heard this cliché once, we've heard it a thousand times, so we hope we'll be forgiven for the blunt talk that follows. Let's face...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 15, 2011 | Blog
Talked with Rick Smith about this piece on M & I Bank (" ") on his radio show last night. Here's the audio (it's about ten minutes long - just enough to listen to while you're clearing the paperwork off your desk): RickSmithMar142011-podcast (click on the link to...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 15, 2011 | Blog, Economy
As Abraham Lincoln famously said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." When you put enough dots in front of people sooner or later they will connect the dots....
by Dave Johnson | Mar 15, 2011 | Blog
Tuesday the House of Representatives voted to continue tax breaks and subsidies for oil companies. Every Republican voted to support the tax breaks and subsidies. Thursday House Republicans are expected to introduce legislation to prevent the Environmental Protection...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 15, 2011 | Blog
Karl Rove's corporate front-group Crossroads GPS is spending $750,000 to run ads explaining that unionized workers make 42% more than non-union workers. From the Politico story about the ad buy, Crossroads GPS is airing the ad on national cable. The buy is $750,000...
