by Bill Scher | Feb 10, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The possibility exists for the Senate to pass a bipartisan jobs bill. It just won't do much to create jobs. The Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, typically a fountain of misinformation, gets this one right in Bloomberg: "Kyl ... said Democrats shouldn’t advertise the...
by Bill Scher | Feb 10, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday, following the NYT report that bank lobbies, led by private lender Sallie Mae, were succeeding in stalling student loan reform, Education Secretary Arne Duncan shot back. The Washington Post reported on Duncan's blistering retort: "Working Americans pay...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 10, 2010 | Blog
What kind of people respond to an invitation with a list of demands? John Boehner and Eric Cantor have responded to Barack Obama's invitation to sit down and talk health-care reform. They answered in the form of a ransom note. Here are their demands: 1) "Assuming the...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 10, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Americans are angry -- Wall Street has been bailed out, and there's no sign of job growth on Main Street. We know this is important because Sarah Palin's poll tested tea party speech featured it. We know its important because that was the clear message of...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog
It should be, as the President once called it, a "no-brainer": Overhaul our broken system for distributing federal student loans. Stop giving banks undeserved profits for administering these loans (an estimated $80 billion over ten years), since they take no risk and...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog
In the State of the Union speech President Obama set a goal of doubling American exports by 2015. The Commerce Department is launching a National Export Initiative to work on getting this done. The National Export Initiative is focused on three key areas: 1. A more...
