by Robert Borosage | Mar 11, 2010 | Blog
Senators Webb and Sanders have signed letter urging President Obama to fill empty seats on Federal Reserve Board with nominees who will help balance the Institution. Notably they urge the Pres to find nominees who would break up the big banks, ban usurious interest...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 11, 2010 | Blog
The world's super-duper rich, in the new Forbes magazine count, total just over 1,000 — and hold more wealth than half of humanity. The annual billionaire issue of Forbes magazine, published earlier this week, has a bit of everything. You can thumb these pages,...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 11, 2010 | Blog
After more than a year of closed-door negotiations, the President and other Democrats have finally appropriated a Republican phrase by calling for "an up or down vote" on the resulting health reform legislation. Great idea - so great, in fact, that we should do even...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 11, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
There is a great deal of pressure on the Obama administration to declare China as a currency manipulator, and with very good reason: they are manipulating their currency. This manipulation gives goods made in China a huge price advantage over goods made in other...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 11, 2010 | Blog
It is, as Presidente Obama stated, a "no brainer." Cut the $90 billion in subsides that go to banks to make risk free student loans that are GUARANTEED BY THE GOVERNMENT, go to direct lending, and use the money saved to incrase Pell grants and tuition tax credts for...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 11, 2010 | Blog
Senator Sherrod Brown, head of the subcommittee in charge of overseeing the Federal Reserve, has written President Obama urging him to use the THREE vacancies on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors to make the Fed more accountable. Letter and Huff Post report...
