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...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 5, 2010 | Blog
teworthy that the right-wing reaction to U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling against California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage is not based on coherent, substantive and scientific arguments about the impact of gay marriage on society. Rather,...
by Bill Scher | Aug 5, 2010 | Blog
Today, the President visited his third American auto plants in recent weeks, highlighting the fact that all three major American automakers are now profitable after government intervention and restructuring of the industry. Also today, the Medicare trustees reported...
