by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 2, 2010 | Blog
News reports today that California Attorney General Jerry Brown did not find cause to prosecute workers for the community group ACORN who were caught in a sting orchestrated by a conservative blogger are bittersweet, given that Thursday was the day that
by Terrance Heath | Apr 2, 2010 | Blog
OK. This is truly getting tiresome. I know the media is making an attempt to be "fair and balanced" in writing about the threats of violence against Democratic lawmakers after the passage of health care reform. Plenty of people have already addressed this,...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 2, 2010 | Blog
With pressure building on the administration to tell the truth on China’s currency manipulation, and a report required by law on April 15, the Chinese government demonstrated just how sophisticated it is about playing US politics. Setting aside the harsh rhetoric of...
by Zach Carter | Apr 2, 2010 | Blog
The latest letter from J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to his company’s shareholders is a deliberate effort to obfuscate his own bank’s rapaciousness and deflect attention from the enormous sums it has spent lobbying against financial reform. But despite the bank’s...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 2, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Moments after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report that the economy produced 162,000 jobs in March, this statement was issued on Capitol Hill: "“Any report showing that the economy added jobs is clearly a better alternative to one showing that it lost...
by Mary Bottari | Apr 1, 2010 | Blog
TALLY SHOWS THAT THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS THE REAL SOURCE OF BAILOUT FUNDS Today, the Real Economy Project of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) released an assessment of the total cost to taxpayers of the Wall Street bailout. CMD concludes that multiple federal...
