by Richard Eskow | Dec 28, 2010 | Blog
Historians of the future will look back on this year as a turning point in the drive to dismantle a popular, self-funded program by convincing people that it's a "big government" initiative that "costs too much." Ours will be remembered as a time when superstition...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 24, 2010 | Blog
In his press conference today President Obama said the economic focus is no longer saving the economy from crisis, but "jumpstarting" it to make a dent in unemployment. He listed education as one of the pillars of that effort. Later in the press conference he talked...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 23, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Peter J. Wallison has a bright future ... as a surrealist author.. He and the other Republicans on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission tried to undermine that group's work by attempting to ban phrases like "Wall Street" from its final report. Now he's trying to...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 23, 2010 | Blog
I’ve just read the “preport” issued by the Republican gang of four minority on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). The preport was a publicity stunt designed to embarrass the Commission, and discredit its report before it is issued. The effort became...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 22, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Speaker Nancy Pelosi will relinquish the gavel to the perpetually tanned, lachrymose Republican leader John Boehner when the new Congress convenes next January. It will be four years after that January 4, 2007 day when she "broke the marble ceiling" and became the...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 22, 2010 | Blog
Blame the unions, blame the unemployed, blame loans to the poor, blame the government... As income and wealth increasingly go to a few at the top public anger is directed at the economy's victims. I am in a clinic all day participating in a medical study, so I was...
