by Zach Carter | Nov 17, 2010 | Blog
A month ago, President Barack Obama vetoed a bill that would have made it far more difficult for borrowers to prove that banks were engaging in foreclosure fraud. The bill was a complex, highly technical bailout for megabanks that have defrauded millions of borrowers,...
by Bill Scher | Nov 16, 2010 | Blog
Conservative austerity activists have long sought to whip up deficit hysteria and manipulate Washington into gutting Social Security and Medicare and stifling public investments. But Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a progressive member of the White House deficit commission, has...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 16, 2010 | Blog
A piece of conventional wisdom was debunked today by a new report on the 2010 midterm elections released by the Joint Center for Political Studies. One bottom-line conclusion of this report: It was not the failure of black voters to show up at the polls that caused...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 16, 2010 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
The deficit commission report issued last week is another Saturday night special pressed to the temple of the American middle class. “Turn over your money and your benefits or your country will die,” the report screams at workers. “You want your country to go...
by Bill Scher | Nov 16, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday I observed that Republican congresspeople literally are not offering any substantive ideas to create jobs. Now, leading Republicans are coalescing around an substantive idea ... for the Federal Reserve to stop trying to create jobs. It is currently the law...
