by Robert Borosage | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog
Don't miss the Bill Moyers show tonight. He's got Simon Johnson, the former IMF economist and Rep. Marcy Kaptur looking at how Wall Street dominates Washington -- from the White House to Congress. Eyeopening stuff: Arianna Huffington published an excerpt from the...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog
Wow. Break out the spatulas, and get ready to scrape the exploded brains of right-wingers off the ceiling, walls, etc. Apparently, President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. US President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee...
by Bill Scher | Oct 8, 2009 | Blog
After all year repeatedly citing Congressional Budget Office
by Dave Johnson | Oct 8, 2009 | Blog
The Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics blog wrote this yesterday: Princeton University economist, author and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in economics last year for his work on international trade — so the guy knows what he’s...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 8, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
In the title tune to the 1934 musical Anything Goes,"Cole Porter says "times have changed," since the stock market crashed in 1929, but the super rich, like John D. Rockefeller Jr., "still can hoard enough money to let Max Gordon produce his shows." The lyrics also...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 8, 2009 | Blog
Glenn Beck has captured national attention with his caustic poison. The aging right-wing troubadours -- Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly—still rouse the wingnuts and enforce discipline among Republican legislators. They've peddled the fantasies about ACORN and the...
