by Bill Scher | Aug 23, 2010 | Blog
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is repeating lies about the Bush tax cuts for multi-millionaires. Good journalists should stop him. After McConnell defensively dodged questions from Meet The Press host David Gregory on how he could support both deficit...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 23, 2010 | Blog
The things that people "know" are very different from the "reality-based" things those of us reading a blog like this know, and those things seem to always, always serve the corporate right. I have been away on vacation. While away I have been talking to "regular"...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 22, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The takeaway from the latest top gun flame-out at Hewlett-Packard: Chief executive 'success,' in America today, essentially demands no more than greed and a developmentally arrested ego. The tall tales we’ve inherited from ages long gone we call myths. The tall...
by Zach Carter | Aug 20, 2010 | Blog
Do today's economic conservatives actually want to live in a functional society, or are they striving for an economy that runs on Monopoly Money? NPR's Planet Money recently did a fun segment on the classic board game and its relationship to actual economics,...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 20, 2010 | Blog
Progressive bloggers were ready to have a "stroke" after Mike Allen from Politico reported that the Administration wants to take action on Social Security - action that's likely to include cuts. Many were relieved when Tim Fernholz of the American Prospect, who...
by Bill Scher | Aug 20, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Yesterday, I flagged the 12 Democratic Senators who, in addition to all 41 Republican Senators, have prevented Congress from using Econ 101 deficit spending to create jobs and spark a robust recovery. I'm sure some of these Senators are sincere and some are cynical....
