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...
by Bill Scher | Jul 15, 2009 | Blog
Thank you Sarah Palin, for crystallizing the choice facing us on climate and energy. With her Washington Post oped, Sarah Palin is taking her position as the most popular Republican among Republicans to lead conservative opposition to the clean energy jobs and climate...
by Eric Lotke | Jul 15, 2009 | Blog
The irony is killing me. Two stories run next to each other in today’s (July 15, 2009) Washington Post. Together they show the triumph of the pseudo-economy over the real economy. Page A12 carries an article called, The Trickle-Down Effect: An Auto-Parts Maker Fades...
by Eric Lotke | Jul 15, 2009 | Blog
When the U.S. added modest “Buy American” provisions to the February stimulus bill to help keep (some) U.S. assistance in the U.S. economy, people cried foul. -- “A classic protectionist measure,” charged Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) chair of the Senate...
