by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2010 | Blog
(Note: The words that appear in red are links that you can click.) There are a number things the public "knows" as we head into the election that are just false. If people elect leaders based on false information, the things those leaders do in office will not be what...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 24, 2010 | Blog
Conservatives expected human genome research to help prove that nature, not unequal social orders, determines who ends up sick and poor. But our genes have refused to cooperate. A clinical psychologist noted for his observations on how inequality impacts what's...
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....
