by Bill Scher | Oct 21, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday, the White House released another sharp "White House Whiteboard" video featuring economic advisor Austan Goolsbee clearly explaining how the Recovery Act and additional legislation successfully blunted the recession and put us back on the path of positive...
by Bill Scher | Oct 21, 2010 | Blog
Are you progressive? Young? Person of color? Well, then the pollsters say you are not a "likely voter." And the media thinks if you are not a pollster-approved "likely voter" – even though the pollsters themselves can't agree what exactly makes you a pollster-approved...
by Zach Carter | Oct 20, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Foreclosure fraud is ruffling a lot of feathers on Wall Street, and while the full scope of losses remains unclear, even major banks are now acknowledging that this is a multi-billion-dollar disaster, not just a set of minor paperwork headaches. So how bad will it get...
by Zach Carter | Oct 20, 2010 | Blog
The so-called “centrists” at Third Way Foundation have come out against a national foreclosure moratorium, but like many of Third Way’s policies, there’s nothing centrist about their opposition. Third Way is simply throwing American homeowners under the bus in the...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 20, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
At the center of the foreclosure fraud crisis lies something called "MERS," which is usually described in news reports as a computer system and database. But a thorough review of the company's publicly available documents show it's much more than that. We reviewed...
