by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 11, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Over half of America has already felt the Great Recession, personally and profoundly. Yet life at our economy's summit remains ever so sweet. That's a bitter reality we really ought to start confronting. The ranks of the hurting — in Great Recession America...
by Bill Scher | Jul 11, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
The following was my contribution to The Hill's weekly "blogger face-off," as the conservative Ace of Spades and myself answered the question "Like Sen. Graham said, will the Tea Party movement die out?" Tea Party: Nothing New. Nothing Big. Was GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 9, 2010 | Blog, Economy
President Obama gave a major talk on the economic crisis today. While the choice of Las Vegas for its location might be considered ironic, given the fact that Big Bank gambling created the crisis, there's good news: The President's speech could serve as a blueprint...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 9, 2010 | Blog
I just talked to an old friend yesterday and got bad news. He was another programmer laid off in the dot com crash, in his late 40s at the time, so he hasn't been able to get anything since then except the odd short-term contracting gig. Certainly not anything that...
by Sara Robinson | Jul 9, 2010 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
What we need is a new Progressive Dictionary. This dawned on me last week when I spent 1,500 words trying to explain that, no, the word "bureaucrat" was not always a swear word that carries dark connotations of suspect parentage; and that yes, once upon a time, we...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 9, 2010 | Blog
The Washington Post's Neil Irwin today offers a good summary of foreboding reality: in the halting economic recovery, the global ec
