by Dave Johnson | Sep 23, 2009 | Blog
The New York Times business section has this today, With a Receptive White House, Labor Begins to Line Up Battles. Oddly this "news" story incorrectly casts enforcement of trade agreements as opposing "free trade." From the story, While labor’s opposition to free...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 23, 2009 | Blog
It's always amazing to see the bald-faced capacity of the right to spew the intellectual fatuousness that whenever a president's decision aligns with the interests of unions and workers, he's caving in to political pressure, but when it aligns with the interests of...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 23, 2009 | Blog
The world economy is growing; stock markets are up; talk of recovery, not world depression, fills the business pages. As the leaders of the 20 leading economies gather in Pittsburgh this week, they might well feel the euphoria of someone who has survived a near-death...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 22, 2009 | Blog, Economy
I am flying to Pittsburgh tomorrow and will be blogging here Thursday and Friday from the G-20 summit. The G-20 is a meeting of the Group of Twenty (G-20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of "systemically important industrialized and developing economies...
by Bill Scher | Sep 22, 2009 | Blog
The Senate Finance Committee began its formal drafting of its version of health care reform. And after the initial round of opening statements, we still don't know where the votes fall on the public option. We know, of course, that the initial draft from Chairman Max...
by Eric Lotke | Sep 22, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
In the lead up to the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, mainstream media are telling half a story. Everyone seems to agree that heavy industry is a thing of the past. The London Telegraph opens with the “long-gone steel industry” and Business Week with the “rust-stained U.S....
