by Dave Johnson | Oct 18, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
I'll be in Erie, PA to cover a "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall this evening. If you are in the Erie, PA area, tonight's event will be at 5:30 pm at the Bayfront Convention Center will feature the following guests: Scott Paul, Executive Director, Alliance for...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 18, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
Driving across Ohio toward Wheeling you pass one small manufacturing company after another - but not too many with lots of cars in the employee parking lot. I stopped in a coffee shop in a small township. They offered me a cookie, and when I declined, the owner said,...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 18, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Jamie Dimon and the other mega-bankers who derailed the economy have a new PR campaign to sell you. They're saying that families who can't pay their mortgages must bear the blame - all the blame - for the foreclosure crisis. That means the public should just ignore...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 17, 2010 | Blog
Despite our current global economic hard times, says a new study from banking giant Credit Suisse, the world has more than enough wealth to ensure every adult on it a significant personal net-worth nest egg. By Sam Pizzigati Who owns, right now, the wealth of the...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 17, 2010 | Blog
Thursday evening I attended the "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall in the John Spitzer Conference Center at Lorain County Community College, an impressive, large campus. Lorain, Ohio is another town with closed factories, boarded-up houses, high unemployment, and...
by Zach Carter | Oct 15, 2010 | Blog
A lot of frequently credible publications have been pumping out drivel lately blaming borrowers for the ever-widening foreclosure fraud scandal. Fortune Magazine has the latest of these blame-the-borrower narratives. It would be nice to be able to dismiss this kind of...
