by Terrance Heath | Oct 27, 2010 | Blog
Still looking for a reason to vote? Here's a three word answer: health care reform. I'm not sure why Democrats aren't running on it, but it's a big step towards "change we can believe in" — the kind that some 66,882,230 (53% of the popular vote...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 27, 2010 | Blog
Wall Street, conventional wisdom has it, likes legislative gridlock. Stock prices tend to go up when Election Day results in the two major parties splitting power. As a USA Today story recently noted, “In the words of many Wall Street analysts and economists: Gridlock...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 27, 2010 | Blog
Make no mistake: They're not just trying to roll back Social Security. They're trying to dismantle the entire New Deal, piece by piece. There are at least "310,000,000 Reasons to Vote," one for each and every American citizen. But there's also a 310,000,001th reason:...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 26, 2010 | Blog
This morning's interview with Sonali Kolhatkar for KPFK's morning program, "Uprising," was worthwhile for me because Sonali was asking exactly the right questions: Where exactly did the "fraud" take place - during the foreclosure process, as these mortgages were being...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 26, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Tea Party members hate Wall Street bailouts, trade deals like NAFTA, job outsourcing, giant corporations buying laws, government spending, and elites telling the rest of us what to do. But there is no question that their candidates - many of them wealthy corporatists...
