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...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 13, 2011 | Blog
Everyone either wondered what the President would say, or knew what he should say at the memorial for the victims of the shooting in Tucson. Now we know what he did say. It may be the finest speech he's given as president, thus far. He spoke not merely as the...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 13, 2011 | Blog
It begins with a moment of silence. "Poetry is about the grief," said Robert Frost. "Politics is about the grievance." This is a time of grief, not grievance. This morning I assembled a litany of criticisms about what might have led up to yesterday's events, but I...
by | Jan 13, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
President Obama delivered just the right speech in Tucson. Can he replicate that performance for his State of the Union address on January 25? For the sake of our nation’s economic well-being, he must. Just as our national psyche needed some healing this week, our...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 13, 2011 | Blog, Economy
In the aftermath of the tragic Tucson, AZ, shooting that left six dead, and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D, AZ-8) hospitalized, much has been said and written about the degree to which incendiary rhetoric motivated the shooter. However, caustic rhetoric isn't the real...
