by Zach Carter | May 5, 2010 | Blog
9:00 Here we go. Bill Thomas is offering a very silly analogy between the automobile and the financial system. Both were simple 40 years ago, then both got complicated, and now when you need a very sophisticated specialist to fix problems with either cars or finance....
by Eric Lotke | May 5, 2010 | Blog
The agenda of the Blue Green Alliance is brilliant and visionary. Build a “new, clean energy economy in America, and put [people] to work creating the American jobs of the future.” The blue green coalition includes environmentalists and organized labor, and its...
by Alex Lawson | May 5, 2010 | Blog
Probably not going to be the most riveting livestream ever. Video streaming by Ustream
by Zach Carter | May 4, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
J.P. Morgan Chase, America's largest warehouse of arrogant financial elites, has issued yet another deceptive lobbyist smear in the guise of an "analyst report." Yesterday, the megabank's Chief Economist James Glassman launched a broadside against Sen. Carl Levin...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 4, 2010 | Blog
There's a new study today that shows once again how insanely wrong conservatives are when they say that extending unemployment benefits in today's economy only discourages people from finding work. \ Just ask the people who participated in the study of the long-term...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 4, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The BlueGreen Alliance is a coalition of union and environmental organizations "Green is gold," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she stressed the importance of the coalition in building on the job-creation work started by the Recovery Act last year. "Know your power...