by Sara Robinson | May 14, 2010 | Blog
As the debate over the climate bill heats up, there's one rule of thumb that may help you keep your bearings as the rhetoric becomes more gaseous and the weeds grow ever higher around the facts. It's this: There are, in the end, only four possible futures here. Future...
by Dave Johnson | May 14, 2010 | Blog, Economy
It is hard to imagine out here in the real world, but there seem to be people in the Congress who think they can get (or deserve to be) re-elected when they are failing to do anything about jobs or extending unemployment and COBRA with unemployment at 10%,...
by Dave Johnson | May 13, 2010 | Blog
You and I pay income tax on our income. But if your income comes from having really, really wealthy parents you are entitled to really, really special treatment because that is how democracy plutocracy works. In the news: Kyl: Deal on the estate tax in the offing,...
by Dave Johnson | May 13, 2010 | Blog
What's the old saying about hose who cannot learn from history? Well, here we go again. In the news: Oil, Chinese imports boost U.S. trade deficit, Growing imports of oil and Chinese goods pushed the U.S. trade deficit to its highest level in 15 months in March. The...
by Zach Carter | May 13, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
The top Republican fundraiser in the Senate, John Cornyn of Texas, just gave a preposterous speech on Wall Street reform in which he pushed the plan recently promoted recently by disgraced J.P. Morgan Economist James Glassman. Cornyn is opposing the use of a...
by Leo Gerard | May 13, 2010 | Blog
Corporate CEOs, union-busting lawyers, and conservative politicians who pander to the rich condemned a National Mediation Board (NMB) Ruling this week. They complained that the NMB gave railway and airline workers the ability to obtain collective bargaining rights...
