by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 21, 2010 | Blog
You want to be happy? You don't need to be rich, says some fascinating new academic research. But you do need not to be poor. So how much income must you actually have to achieve a reasonable facsimile of nirvana? Here's what the researchers are saying. How much money...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 21, 2010 | Blog
A few things become clear upon picking up Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders, the new book by Republican House members Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy. First, "young" is apparently a relative term in the GOP. Second, a better title might...
by Zach Carter | Sep 21, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Over at bloggingheads, my CAF colleague Bill Scher discusses the new international banking standards with Conn Carroll, a conservative blogger for The Heritage Foundation. Carroll actually agrees with a lot of what I have to say about Basel III, but I he draws...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 20, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
What do you say to a person with a story like the one of suburban Seattle resident Patricia Reid, the unemployed 57-year-old profiled in The New York Times on Monday? ...[F]our years after losing her job she cannot, in her darkest moments, escape a nagging thought:...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 20, 2010 | Blog
President Obama, speaking to a CNBC town hall on the economy today, China 's currency is valued lower than market conditions would say it should be. That means they can sell stuff cheaper here, and our stuff, when we try to sell there, is more expensive. So it gives...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 20, 2010 | Blog
According to a flurry of headlines today, a panel of economists just announced that "the recession's over." Is that true? Yes. Does that mean we're no longer in a crisis, or that steps to fix the economy aren't as urgently needed as they were before? Absolutely not....
