by Richard Eskow | Mar 30, 2010 | Blog
What secrets are hidden in the Federal Reserve's trillion-dollar shadow? Economic recovery depends on confidence, and confidence requires knowledge. But Senators like Chris Dodd and Judd Gregg don't want us to have that knowledge. They don't even want it themselves....
by Bill Scher | Mar 29, 2010 | Blog
The NY Times reports today that insurance companies are prepared to interpret the new health care law so they can deny coverage to children with pre-existing conditions between now and 2014. Insurers are daring to do so even though congressional leaders have made...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 29, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
The "free trade" craze wiping out Haiti's farmers by flooding the country with cheap American rice. The same this happened in northern Mexico with cheap (heavily subsidized) American corn. On March 10 Bill Clinton apologized to Haiti. See With cheap food imports,...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 29, 2010 | Blog
This is too rich. See, during the campaign, I watched countless videos of McCain-Palin supporters. I compiled snippets of them for two post-election videos, and I collected the videos in an online playlist. (I've archived them offline, just in case they disappear and...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 29, 2010 | Blog
For many years we've been hearing about outsourcing and offshoring. President Obama has started taking steps to rebalance world trade and the pendulum is about to start swinging the other way. More and more often you'll be hearing new words: "insourcing," "on-shoring"...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 28, 2010 | Blog
The health care reform legislation President Obama signed into law last week takes a little-noticed but precedent-setting swipe at executive pay excess. The health care reform package that President Obama signed into law last week will give many millions of Americans...
