by Mary Bottari | Jan 19, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Two years after a catastrophic financial collapse and six months after the passage of a Wall Street reform bill, astonishing tales of volatility in the market are all too common. If you think inexplicable flash crashes are worrisome, brace yourself for the next big...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog, Economy
What is it about jobs that is hard to get? The new Republican congressional majority is railing about repealing health care and cutting spending. The president is wooing business and bankers. The punditry is focused on austerity and deficit reduction. But, as a...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog
Mr. President, you moved a nation today with your words in Tucson. "Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame," you said, "let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog, Economy
There isn't much cause for gloating in today's unemployment report, with the number of jobs created during December—103,000—being lower than most analysts expected. But, more critically, we're not even treading water on creating a sufficient number of "breadwinning...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog
Polls consistently find that the vast majority of Americans oppose cutting Social Security, whether they're progressives or Tea Partiers or anything in between. And most real experts agree it's not necessary. We're supposed to have a government "of the people, by the...
