by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 16, 2010 | Blog
As you encounter congressional candidates who are out vote-hunting this week, as them a simple question: Will you pledge to oppose any cuts to Social Security benefits, including increasing the retirement age, and any effort to privatize Social Security? It's a simple...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 16, 2010 | Blog
Billionaire Steve Schwarzman compares Obama's call for taxing private equity income as income, just like everyone else, a "war, like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/steven-schwarzman-obama-a_n_683178.html Currently...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 13, 2010 | Blog
It sounds like the plot to a dozen movies: Picture a corporation so powerful that its tentacles circle the globe and reach into the highest corridors of power. Yet a single sentence on an ex-employee's obscure website forces it to move into action. That sentence is so...
by Trevor Davis | Aug 13, 2010 | Blog
by Terrance Heath | Aug 13, 2010 | Blog
"Haven't we already given money to rich people ... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?" -- President George W. Bush in November 2002, acknowledging to advisors that he knew his tax cuts were giveaways to the super-wealthy. (Source.) If you were among the...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 13, 2010 | Blog
China has a national economic/industrial policy and we don't. They create the conditions for key industries to thrive and we don't. They make sure all of the infrastructure, finance, supply chain, educational, legal, technical and policy elements are in place for an...
