by Leo Gerard | Sep 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Donald Trump likes to brag on the campaign trail that he’s the best at bribing politicians. He said, for example, “When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.” But then when he got caught giving and getting exactly what the hell he wanted, he...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 13, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
As the latest Wells Fargo scandal was breaking, the music world learned of the death of Prince Buster. He’s the Jamaican ska legend who made a record called “Al Capone” and sang “Enjoy yourself/it’s later than you think.” I wonder what he thought about Wall Street?...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 13, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform, Jobs and Growth
Peter Drucker, the internationally acclaimed founder of modern management science, lived nearly a century. He died in 2006 at age 95. He died troubled. The Austrian-born Drucker had always considered management a noble calling, a profession essential to the common...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 13, 2016 | Blog, Climate
Bolstered by an extraordinary order from the Obama administration to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at a site considered sacred and environmentally vulnerable by Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota, thousands upon thousands of pipeline opponents will...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 12, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
"Outsourcing is the smoking gun of the rigged economy." — Robert Kraig, Executive Director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin. Companies extort tax breaks and subsidies by threatening to withhold jobs. After their demands are met, they instead outsource the promised jobs....
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 12, 2016 | Blog
As parents, students and teachers celebrate the start of a new school year, many communities across the country are facing the pain of having their schools permanently closed. Politicians and policy leaders—Democrats and Republicans alike—support dealing with schools...
