by Richard Eskow | Sep 14, 2010 | Blog
A report in today's New York Times describes a policy analyst as believing that Social Security needs to change because people are"living longer." This is a misconception that gets repeated over and over, one which a lot of otherwise well-informed people are convinced...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 14, 2010 | Blog
The President has a commission looking at ways to reduce the budget deficits which were caused by tax cuts for the rich and military spending increases. Social Security – which has no legal authority to borrow money, so it can't contribute to deficits – is on the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 14, 2010 | Blog
Lots of kids believe in Santa Claus. This is because people repeat the fable to kids over and over, telling them that Santa Claus will deliver presents to them if they're good. And then there's the Boogeyman, the "amorphous embodiment of terror." In some regions...
by Zach Carter | Sep 14, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is grasping at straws to block Elizabeth Warren's nomination as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He's making a fool of himself, and hurting his party's political prospects for November. Dodd's latest foray into bank lobby...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 14, 2010 | Blog
For all the noise they make extolling small town America and Main Street as the epitome of American values and the touchstone of morality, conservatism's world view is much closer to that voiced by Phil Gramm, who once called Wall Street a "holy place" — because of...
by Zach Carter | Sep 14, 2010 | Blog
Nobody seriously disputes whether Elizabeth Warren is the best-qualified candidate to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Everybody recognizes the bipartisan political appeal that Warren has with voters, and Democratic strategists know that no action in...
