by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 10, 2010 | Blog
The Chicken Little campaign orchestrated by billionaire Peter G. Peterson to rally public support behind cutting Social Security was kicked up a notch on Tuesday with the launch of the $20 million "Owe No" campaign. With references to "a growing crisis" that will...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 10, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
The conservative wing of the Democratic Party just drove it over a cliff, but you'd never know if from reading Matt Bai's latest New York Times piece. It's the latest in a series of Bai paeans to that odd mix of ideologies and opportunism that Washington types persist...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 9, 2010 | Blog
How much does inequality cost us? The United States holds far more wealth than any other nation in the world. Yet average people in 11 other countries, says landmark new UN research, are enjoying a higher standard of living than Americans. Twenty years ago, in 1990,...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 9, 2010 | Blog, Economy
If, in the future, Republicans ever again ask "Where are the jobs?" it will be because they've forgotten where they buried the ones they killed. For now, though, it's clear they remember all too well. Like a serial killer returning to a favorite dump site to reminisce...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 9, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
No doubt voters sent a message last Tuesday. Deciphering it correctly is crucial. Republican cryptographers interpreted the election results that gave the GOP control of one house of Congress as a directive to demolish everything produced over the past two years –...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 9, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
I have been writing about the Tea Party, and asking what they will do if/when the DC Republicans betray them. CAF has set up a page for the Tea Party Getting Played series. So, how's that new Tea Party Congress working out for Tea Party supporters who expected that...
