by Bill Scher | Apr 23, 2010 | Blog
Today at the Virtual Summit on Fiscal and Economic Responsibility for People Who Did Not Wreck the Economy hosted by Campaign for America's Future... There Are No Greedy Geezers: Former members of the 1982 National Commission on Social Security Reform Eric Kingson,...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 23, 2010 | Blog
How, many people have asked since news broke about Bernie Madoff's $50 billion ponzi scheme, could regulators have let such a blatant criminal slip through their fingers? We know, now. The Securities and Exchange Commission is the sheriff of the financial industry,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 23, 2010 | Blog
Most discussions about addressing the country's budget deficit essentially leave out a $1.1 trillion slice of the federal government. That's the size of the federal government's "tax expenditures" in fiscal year 2009, based on calculations in a new Citizens for Tax...
by Zach Carter | Apr 23, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Sarah Palin's broadside against the Obama administration's Wall Street reform proposal is an interesting study in, well, hackery. One the one hand, her latest Facebook post is a disingenuous smear, loaded with outright lies. On the other, she's kind of onto something,...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 22, 2010 | Blog
Conservatives just hate Europe. They think the US should be less like Europe. So following along with this there was a big headline over at the conservative website Drudge Report the other day: "Even Obama's New $100 bill looks European". Here's the thing. The...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 22, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
This morning I watched a live webcast of a Senate hearing, titled, Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy to Examine Effect of China Currency Practices on American Manufacturing. The details of the hearing as well as an archive of the webcast are available at...
