by A.J. Albrecht | Dec 6, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
On Monday, The International Trade Commission (ITC) unanimously voted to recommend that President Obama impose tariffs on the import of Chinese tires for three years. The new administration will have until September 17 to decide what, if any, relief to provide based...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 6, 2010 | Blog
I appeared on the Rick Smith Show this weekend to talk about the Deficit Commission report (it's technically not an official report, but it's being treated like one anyway), and what its recommendations would mean to a lot of people in this country. Rick, who's based...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 5, 2010 | Blog
The National Archives has just released a once-secret report that helps us understand how incredibly much we today coddle the wealthiest among us. Our political order in the United States, a host of observers have noted over recent years, tends to tilt toward the...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 4, 2010 | Blog
The Presidential Deficit Commission has issued its report -- sort of -- and the president has a problem. Like Dr. Frankenstein in the Mary Shelley novel, he built a creature from discarded parts and it took on a life of its own. And like its fictional counterpart,...
by Bill Scher | Dec 3, 2010 | Blog
When health care reform was signed into law, President Barack Obama correctly described it as "biggest deficit reduction plan since the 1990s." In fact, the Congressional Budget Office projected it would save more than $1 trillion during the next two decades. This...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 3, 2010 | Blog
9.8%! It’s still all about jobs. It's still an emergency. And the DC elite still don’t get it -- or don't care. They give us a "deficit commission" not a jobs commission. They've got it nice while the rest of us have it not-so-nice. Maybe we should move the Congress...
