by Richard Eskow | Aug 7, 2010 | Blog
They're too old to rock and roll, too young to ... ruin Social Security. Despite the scaremongers' attempts to incite generational war, people born between 1946 and 1964 are not going to destroy the Social Security system. The Baby Boom cohort isn't going to be a...
by Zach Carter | Aug 7, 2010 | Blog
Of all the accomplishments Elizabeth Warren has amassed during her lifetime, one of the most impressive is also one of the least well-known to the general public. Warren was a co-founder of Credit Slips, a very technical, influential blog on banking and bankruptcy....
by Bill Scher | Aug 6, 2010 | Blog, Economy
In the Reality-Based Community, the disappointing job reports are evidence we need our government to do more to get the economy on sound footing. In Conservative Fiction Land, the disappointing jobs reports are evidence we need to go back to the policies that gave us...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 6, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The economy is stuck. We need jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. Not tax cuts. The government released the July Employment Situation Summary and it isn't great. First, in context, before the stimulus we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. The...
by Eric Lotke | Aug 6, 2010 | Blog
Today’s new unemployment report contains no news, just decimal point changes. It tells us what we already know, that times are bad. The question is whether our great nation can rise to the challenge. Unemployment remains unchanged at 9.5 percent, with 14.6 million...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 5, 2010 | Blog
The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission have broad powers to root out and punish financial fraud. The Interagency Financial Fraud Task Force, formed last November, is an Obama-era innovation that enhances the government's ability to track...
