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...
by Mary Bottari | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog
While Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was on the talk shows reassuring America that the economy is healing, developments in Europe threatened to cut the legs out from under a U.S. recovery. The short story is that Greece and a number of other European Union (EU)...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog
Sarah Palin's keynote speech was quite a hit at this weekend's Tea Party convention. She even took a shot at pinning responsibility for the deficit on the Obama administration. "The Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda will leave us less secure, more in debt and under the thumb...
by Bill Scher | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog
Right now, we taxpayers give big banks billions to subsidize their student loans. Giving big banks money is decidedly unpopular after the TARP bailout, among liberals and conservatives. So you'd think there would be consensus to end the subsidies. Apparently not....
