by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 31, 2010 | Blog
Labor leaders at last week's Alpine assembling of global bankers and CEOs came with a simple pledge: We're going to fight to cap your pay. At Davos, the Swiss resort where global corporate and financial execs assemble every winter at a glittery “World Economic...
by Bill Scher | Jan 29, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Today's initial estimate of 5.7% annual rate of growth in the GDP for the last quarter of 2009 sure beats a kick in the teeth. And if we sustain this rate of growth, we will have a robust recovery and come near full employment. But we won't sustain this growth unless...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 29, 2010 | Blog, Economy
It's not personal, it's business. The Supreme Court recently ruled 5-4 that George Bush will be President corporations can spend unlimited amounts to support or oppose candidates. Corporations! Since there are no restrictions on the citizenship of the owners of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 28, 2010 | Blog
Though progressives have not succeeded in blocking Ben Bernanke's renomination as chairman of the Federal Reserve—which was always a long-shot proposition—we now have on the historical record a detailed critique of his record during the financial crisis that we might...
by Sara Robinson | Jan 28, 2010 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
As long as we're taking the measure of the country this week, let's look in on the far (and not so far) fringes of the right wing. What's up with them? And how worried should we be? For the past several months, I've been trying to get a bead on the actual numbers of...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 28, 2010 | Blog, Economy
To be thrown out of work is a crushing blow. Homes are lost. Families split. Children are terrified. Hopes are dashed. Today, nearly one in five American workers is without a job or scraping by on whatever part-time, short-term work there is. We need a real jobs bill...
