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...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 22, 2010 | Blog
If you've ever wondered what the phrase "the sound of silence" means, you should've been listening when the President invited "the titans of industry" to join him in promoting financial reform this morning. The President's speech walked a fine line between vision and...
by Zach Carter | Apr 22, 2010 | Blog
President Barack Obama identified five major problems on Wall Street in his speech at Cooper Union today. Unfortunately, the solutions he has proposed to these problems either will not work, or are not included in the legislation that passed the Senate Banking...
