by Dave Johnson | Jan 15, 2011 | Blog
Watch as GOP Rep. Jim Renacci (OH) is confronted at a local town hall meeting, asked what the heck he thinks he is doing saying he will vote to repeal the health care reform law. Renacci replies that he and fellow Republicans campaigned on reversing the "half a...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 15, 2011 | Blog
Note: See also Isaiah Poole's We Need An Unemployed People's Campaign Why don't we all have a right to a job? Who is our country and our economy for? The first three words of our Constitution provide us with a hint: "We, the People." There are millions of people out...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 14, 2011 | Blog
In an open letter to the President this week, Sen. Bernie Sanders mentioned "worriesome reports" that the President is planning to cut Social Security. These reports don't come out of the blue. They're the culmination of a months-long campaign. The White House has...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 14, 2011 | Blog
Central to the Tea Party revolt was a fierce reaction against the bailout of the big banks. Will the Republican Congress now spit that sentiment in the eye and push through another bailout, this time by overturning centuries of property law and nationalizing what has...
by Mary Bottari | Jan 14, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is promising to unleash a cache of secret documents from the hard drive of a U.S. megabank executive. In 2009, he told Computer World that the bank was Bank of America (BofA). In 2010, he told Forbes that the information was...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 13, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
Good news: Trade Deficit in U.S. Unexpectedly Narrows to 10-Month Low The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly shrank in November as growing global demand and a weaker dollar help boost overseas sales of everything from aircraft to cotton. The gap shrank 0.3 percent to...
