by Terrance Heath | Jan 24, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Two years into his first term, President Obama can claim credit for two passing historic reforms — health care reform and financial reform. However, both were merely a beginning — a first step toward real reform — and fell far short of addressing effectively the...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 24, 2011 | Blog
We all want to see the Senate start working again, and be more democratic. We have all lived through the breakdown of the Senate and the damage this has done to our democracy and the public's faith in government because of the abuse of the current rules. There is a...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 24, 2011 | Blog
Schemes and scams unravel, usually badly. China has been manipulating its currency, causing economic imbalances on a scale the world has rarely if ever before seen. The consequences are causing inflation problems inside China. One way or another this is going to...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 24, 2011 | Blog
A national industrial/economic policy is a plan by a government to promote the growth of key strategic industries or sectors in a country. Examples: China has been developing their manufacturing sector and is now the largest exporter. India spent decades building up...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 23, 2011 | Blog
Whatever the President says about Social Security in his State of the Union speech, the push to cut it will continue. A great deal of time, effort, and money has been expended to make sure that it does, and to promote a very limited set of policies for reducing...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 21, 2011 | Blog
Here's something else for the President to consider while he's drafting the Social Security portion of his State of the Union message: Yet another poll demonstrates the public's strong support for Social Security, and its strong opposition to benefit cuts. But this...
