by Alex Lawson | May 3, 2010 | Blog
I am a founding member of The Other 98% and I am really proud of this growing organization. We are speedily closing in on 30,000 facebook fans since the beginning of April. I am really proud of the awesome video that we made to showcase our involvement in the Show...
by Terrance Heath | May 3, 2010 | Blog
The only things more astounding than conservatives' record of failure, are their denials of "personal responsibility" for the ensuing disasters, and their attempts to blame somebody — anybody — else. Their response to the growing ecological...
by Zach Carter | May 3, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Despite all of the attention heaped on the Treasury Department and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Federal Reserve served as the chief bank bailout engine in the U.S. economy during the . But unlike the Treasury, the Fed isn't subject to basic government...
by Dave Johnson | May 3, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Things are good for the plutocrats. Stock market soaring, bonuses are big... Thinks are going mighty fine. So fine, in fact, that the urgency of extending unemployment, COBRA and programs to help the people harmed by the financial disaster is moving off the table. But...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2010 | Blog
In June 2008, former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich Jr.—a conservative who is now seeking the Republican nomination to get his old job back—was at an education conference in which he touted charter schools, private institutions that operate in competition to public...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 2, 2010 | Blog
What happens to societies that don’t share the wealth? They spend — and waste — a fortune guarding it. The latest over-the-top example: Oracle has spent $4.6 million on “residential security” for billionaire CEO Larry Ellison. The Great...
