by Terrance Heath | Oct 17, 2008 | Blog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....
by Bill Scher | Oct 17, 2008 | Blog
I never thought I'd see the day when conservatives would do a smear job on tax cuts. I had a, shall we say, lively discussion with conservative Town Hall blogger Amanda Carpenter for the weekly The Week In Blog segment over at bloggingheads.tv.. And she offered the...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 17, 2008 | Blog
Peering fearlessly into the increasingly likely terror of a Democratic President with larger Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, the Wall Street Journal editorial page sums up the stark horrors that could ensue. Voters will be registered. Workers...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 16, 2008 | Blog
On the heels of an explosive political document that has been hitting millions of mailboxes of potential voters— third-quarter 401(k) statements showing how much the Wall Street meltdown has hurt individual retirement savings—another potential game-changer is...
by Bill Scher | Oct 16, 2008 | Blog
Dean Baker notes that the "giant" tax increase Joe the Plumber fears would prevent him from buying a $280,000 plumbing business would amount to, at most, $900: Mr. Wurzelbacher says that he is planning to buy a plumbing business that has profits of between $250,000...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 16, 2008 | Blog
Nouriel Roubini is one of the few economists who warned about the housing bubble and predicted the financial collapse before it occurred. His alarms — dismissed as extreme by Wall Street nabobs and most economists — turned out to be right. Now he details the scope —...
