by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog, Tax Reform
Tax law professors don’t normally have much of a public profile. Victor Fleischer does. In fact, one business journalist has just tagged this ace analyst from the University of San Diego “the closest thing the tax world has to a rock star.” Most rock stars have big...
by Leo Gerard | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog, Current Issues, Jobs and Growth, Trade
As Hillary Clinton’s "Blue Collar Bus Tour,” travels across Pennsylvania and Ohio, I want to tell you about two angry white men I met at the Democratic National Convention last week. The press would have you believe that all of the angry white men are Trump...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
Austerity is officially dead, at least at the presidential candidate level. Congress? We'll have to wait and see. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are talking about increased spending on public infrastructure. Hillary Clinton has launched her post-convention...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Donald Trump’s response to a well deserved rebuke form the parents of a Muslim-American war hero should lead Republicans to ask whether their candidate has, at long last, no sense of decency. It was a moment that shook the Democratic convention. With his wife Ghazala...
by Robert Reich | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton said the nation was at “a moment of reckoning.” She’s right, but the reckoning is not simply the choice voters face this fall between her and Donald Trump. The real reckoning is larger and it will...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Hillary Clinton offered a strong economic platform at last week’s Democratic National Convention. She promised to boost employment and wages with large-scale investments in infrastructure and green jobs. She declared her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership...