by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 11, 2009 | Blog
Jon Stewart deserves a medal for finally getting the public talking about the ugly, dangerous truth about the leading outlet for business and economic news coverage, CNBC: It often inflames, but rarely informs. In fact, CNBC has turned inflaming into a business...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 11, 2009 | Blog
Last year we worried about homes below water; now it is the economy itself that is sinking. Warren Buffett says the U.S. economy has "fallen off a cliff." And, as bad as the U.S. is, the rest of the world is worse. Germany's exports have collapsed; Japan is in free...
by Bill Scher | Mar 10, 2009 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
EFCA Introduced Today Bloomberg reports Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep. George Miller will introduce the Employee Free Choice Act today and that Dem Sens. Bayh, Bingaman, Landrieu, Lincoln, Nelson (Neb.) and Pryor remain uncommitted. Media Matters: "USA Today, Politico...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 9, 2009 | Blog
America's most financially fortunate, the cagier critics of President Obama are claiming, can sidestep any hike in the tax rate on high incomes. But history tells a different story. Last fall, in the Presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama promised to raise...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 9, 2009 | Blog
Oh, boy. It's gonna be a fun eight years if president Obama keeps giving interview answers like these. First, he exasperates and confounds conservatives by doing pretty much what he said he would do when he was just candidate Obama. (Somehow, that, plus his margin of...
by Roger Hickey | Mar 8, 2009 | Blog
Like most participants in President Obama’s Health Care Summit last Thursday, I was thrilled to be invited to the White House for the big public meeting on health care. At the Summit, the President did what the leaders and activists of the 800 organizations in our...
