by Dave Johnson | Oct 24, 2010 | Blog
Before I start this post, let's look at the actual situation. The economy is terrible, people are really hurting, they have been holding out and are starting to drop off the map. There are signs that with the stimulus fading things are starting to turn back down. But...
by Zach Carter | Oct 22, 2010 | Blog
There’s been plenty of recent media attention to the prospect of investor lawsuits over fraudulent mortgages and mortgage securities. But investor lawsuits against mortgage servicers could be even more damaging than these other lines of legal inquiry. The four largest...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 22, 2010 | Blog
The following was originally published in Politico. Republicans dub their congressional challengers the Young Guns, who proclaim a reborn conservative fealty to balanced budgets, small government and free markets. At the same time, their campaigns are fueled by what...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 22, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
GOP candidates are making a point of running against "bailouts" this year. Yet even as they rail about rescuing big banks, they're working on a plan that would slip those same banks an estimated $90 billion in taxpayer money ... and that's just in the first ten years....
by Sara Robinson | Oct 22, 2010 | Blog
In August 2009, I wrote a piece titled Fascist America: Are We There Yet? that sparked much discussion on both the left and right ends of the blogosphere. In it, I argued that -- according to the best scholarship on how fascist regimes emerge -- America was on a path...
by Bill Scher | Oct 22, 2010 | Blog
It's been 20 months since Barack Obama was inaugurated, and five years since George Bush's attempt to privatize Social Security were completely rejected by the public. How have conservatives reacted to their decades-long futile attempt to destroy the popular pillar of...
