by Dave Johnson | Oct 19, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
A few weeks ago, in a case involving a tire import surge President Obama enforced our trade agreement with China. The agreement spelled out that a disruptive surge in imports would be remedied by imposing a tariff, which is what the President did. Of course he was...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 19, 2009 | Blog
Commentators, including our own Sara Robinson and author Neal Gabler, have observed a resurgent brand of conservatism that has taken on the characteristics of religious zealotry. It is a brand of conservatism that cannot be negotiated with because its adherents see...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 19, 2009 | Blog
Can excess on Wall Street ever be ended? Maybe. Some lawmakers in France have a plan that could end it. America’s biggest banks, amid the shakiest economic times since the 1930s, last week announced record profits — and deposited record billions into bonus...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 19, 2009 | Blog
The meeting got testy. Voices rose last Thursday among Democrats over differences in the Senate Finance and Health committee versions of insurance reform. Max Baucus defended his committee’s bill, voted out last week with one Republican, but lacking a public option...
by Roger Hickey | Oct 19, 2009 | Blog
This is the moment when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and Majority Leader Harry Reid (and President Obama) should make history by producing a Senate health reform bill that makes health insurance truly affordable for all Americans, creates a strong...
by Bill Scher | Oct 18, 2009 | Blog
Many of us talk about how we need shift from being mainly a service-based economy and revitalize our manufacturing base. Few of us actually make the shift ourselves. On Saturday's The LiberalOasis Radio Show, which airs on WHMP in Western MA, "My River Chronicles"...
