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...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 26, 2010 | Blog
The Congress just voted to take over $60 billion in subsidies to the banks and invest it in aid to college students. The students beat the banks; hard to believe but true. The reconciliation bill that featured the final “fixes” on health care also included a...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 26, 2010 | Blog
The big news, since President Obama signed health care reform into law, has been the threats made against Democratic lawmakers. [h/t, Prometheus.] But there is another threat looming, that isn't directed at Democratic officials, and isn't getting nearly as much...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 26, 2010 | Blog
When a policy is just wrong it's just wrong. I have written about how Chinese CEOs and Chinese economists have been making the case for China to bring its currency up to market rates. Even Chinese government officials are making the case for a stronger currency. In a...