by Richard Eskow | Feb 15, 2010 | Blog
Like an cat burglar, Goldman Sachs leaves its fingerprints in the most unusual places. The news of Goldman's role in the Greek financial crisis isn't just a black eye for Wall Street. It's also a diplomatic disaster for the United States, whose government has become...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 15, 2010 | Blog
The Post's Robert J. Samuelson has been a purblind corproate trade ideologue, preaching its virtues even as the US sank into debt, corporations sent jobs abroad, and global imbalances helped drive the economy off the cliff. But in today's Post -- http://is.gd/8qu3b --...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 14, 2010 | Blog
In contemporary American political life, only the rich can afford to be politically impatient. The big question: How long will the rest of us tolerate such a starkly unrepresentative status quo? By Sam Pizzigati Four score years ago, amid the tumult of the Great...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 13, 2010 | Blog
Bob Herbert has a column today, Watching China Run, asking our country's leaders to get moving on the country's problems, Our esteemed leaders in Washington can’t figure out how to do anything more difficult than line up for a group photo. Put Americans back to work?...
by Mary Bottari | Feb 12, 2010 | Blog
It's really unbelievable. The way that Goldman Sachs keeps sticking its foot in it is simply unbelievable. Let's not review their gross profits and bonuses or their many failed PR schemes to gloss over unseemly profits (a practice we have dubbed "greedwashing"). Let's...
by Bill Scher | Feb 12, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The Nation published this week a fascinating report of a new model of worker cooperative that could attack the jobs crisis and the climate crisis, called "The Cleveland Model." Cleveland's "Evergreen" network of large-scale co-ops, backed with a multi-million dollar...
