by Dave Johnson | Sep 29, 2010 | Blog
Last month Former Senator and Deficit Commission co-chair Alan Simpson said this about Social Security, and by extension about government itself, "We’ve reached a point now where it’s like a milk cow with 310 million tits!" Nice. We work and pay into Social Security...
by Eric Lotke | Sep 29, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
Yesterday I attended a conference on the Renaissance of American Manufacturing in Washington DC. It included a variety of organizations with interests in trade, from the US Business and Industry Council to the International Association of Machinists and the U.S.-China...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 28, 2010 | Blog
This discussion of whether to get rid of the Bush tax cuts for the rich has been a learning experience. I have been listening on the radio and reading the comments at blogs. The main thing I am concluding is that people just do not understand how tax brackets work....
by Robert Borosage | Sep 28, 2010 | Blog
Clive Crook, columnist for the Financial Times, urges President Obama to “betray” his base, and lead from the “centre.” Brits offering political strategy for American presidents are a bit like Americans telling Italians how to improve their pasta. And Crook’s analysis...
by Bill Scher | Sep 28, 2010 | Blog
It's been 20 months since America embraced a progressive path after decades of conservative failure. How have conservative leaders reacted since then? By reassessing what went wrong on their watch and offering fresh ideas? Or by completely losing their minds? For the...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 28, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
What happened to Moody's is what happens to every "agent" who thinks he can serve two masters. The sad thing is that it keeps happening, even though we've seen this movie before. Credit rating agencies are supposed to monitor debt that's issued by financial...
