by Dave Johnson | Jun 1, 2010 | Blog
Bob Herbert in the NY Times today, If a bank is too big to fail, it’s way too big to exist. If an oil well is too far beneath the sea to be plugged when something goes wrong, it’s too deep to be drilled in the first place. When are we going to stop behaving so...
by Sara Robinson | May 31, 2010 | Blog
As I write this, it's Memorial Day down in the US. All over the country, the flags are flying and the high school bands are playing and the parades are queuing up. (So are the shoppers, hitting the sales at the mall.) And of course, it wouldn't be Memorial Day In...
by Richard Eskow | May 31, 2010 | Blog
Here's an audio clip of an appearance yesterday with Hannah-Beth Jackson on Santa Barbara progressive radio to discuss the current state of financial reform and what activists can do to influence the outcome: Hannah Beth Jackson 0530 edited I edited out about a minute...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 31, 2010 | Blog
With millions of Americans out of work and hurting, lawmakers who claim they worry about budget deficits spent last week forcing 'compromises' that will save hedge fund kingpins billions in taxes. You want to lead a charmed existence? Just start up your own private...
by Richard Eskow | May 28, 2010 | Blog
There's a lot to admire about the President's consensus-seeking style, however frustrating it can be to activists. But his press conference yesterday, and the management problems that led up to it, show the limits of that style in times of crisis. Hopefully the oil...
by Terrance Heath | May 28, 2010 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
The change agenda at America's Future NOW! REGISTER NOW for AFN 2010 The deficit fear mongers are right that America faces a deficit that threatens to cripple our economy and foreclose on the futures of millions of Americans. They just have the wrong deficit. That's...
