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...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 15, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
I have just learned that tonite's "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia will be webcast live starting at 5:15PM EST. Visit the Wheeling Town Hall - Live page for the webcast. From their page: With the election less than three weeks away, West...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 15, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
Yesterday I was in Jackson Michigan to attend the 2010 "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall Tour meeting. It was a very well-attended event, and everyone I spoke with seemed energized because someone is out there talking about what they consider an important issue, and...
