by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 11, 2010 | Blog
Windfall rewards give CEOs an incentive to put worker lives at risk. To see all workers safe, our most recent mining tragedy reminds us, maybe we need to end those windfalls. In a perverse sort of way, CEOs like Don Blankenship, the chief executive at Massey Energy,...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 9, 2010 | Blog
You wouldn't know it from the Heritage Foundation's 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, but the economic "luck of the Irish" ran out in 2008. Not only did the "Celtic Tiger" — as the Irish economy had been dubbed — lose its roar, but...
by Bill Scher | Apr 9, 2010 | Blog
Unless we successfully pressure CNN to change course, tomorrow it will air Pete Peterson's anti-Social Security, anti-Medicare anti-public investment deficit propaganda film "I.O.U.S.A" along with additional propaganda "commentary" from people who work for the...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 9, 2010 | Blog
There are rumors that China will let its currency start to rise a tiny bit. China's currency undervalued by up to 40%, which means goods made there have as much as a 40% advantage coming out of the gate, even before their other rulebreaking trade schemes kick in....
by Roger Hickey | Apr 9, 2010 | Blog
This weekend, CNN is giving four hours of free airtime to the leading propagandist fanning the flames of deficit hysteria, Pete Peterson, along with his lackeys. Bloggers and online activists are joining today to promote this action: Click here to demand CNN stop...
by Zach Carter | Apr 9, 2010 | Blog
2:00 FCIC Commissioners today have been much more aggressive than they've been in any hearing thus far. Watching Bill Thomas go after Fannie Mae exec Robert Levin on lobbying was really satisfying. But where was this tenacity yesterday, or in February? The way Thomas...
