by Robert Borosage | Jul 17, 2009 | Blog
Some stories don't really require elaboration. This from Politico's Playbook this a.m. The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then flipped and sided...
by Steven Capozzola | Jul 16, 2009 | Blog, China Currency Showdown
In Pittsburgh today, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced that the Obama administration will take a more aggressive approach to supporting American industrial workers through greater protection of labor rights and more aggressive monitoring of overseas trade...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 16, 2009 | Blog
The right-wing blogosphere is abuzz over the supposed smackdown between Sen. Barbara Boxer and Harry C. Alford, who portrays himself as an "African American and a veteran" who is insulted at Boxer's alleged racism and calls her on it. Well, as an African American I...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 16, 2009 | Blog
It's worth slogging through the minutes of the June Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting. Read the deliberations of the Fed board members and staff and you see an economic horizon that is much more dangerous than what is suggested by the assurances of the...
by Sara Robinson | Jul 15, 2009 | Blog
One of the most schizoid aspects of Age of Reagan was the peculiar division of labor that developed between conservatives and progressives over the question of morality. Somewhere on the road between 1980 and 1994, the conservatives seized and locked down exclusive...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 15, 2009 | Blog
Now that congressional leaders have named the members of the Financial Services Inquiry Commission—what is often referred to as the "Pecora Commission"—we are going to see once again who is prepared to lay the groundwork for real financial reform...
