by Terrance Heath | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
Earlier this month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau revealed new rules to rein in payday lenders and their outrageous fees. Now, the CFPB needs to take the next step to protect Americans from these corporate loan sharks. People’s Action is calling on the CFPB...
by Thomas Palley | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Trade
In years to come, the Brexit referendum may come to be seen as the day we entered the eye of the maelstrom that now promises enormous destruction. The immediate consequence looks to be a possible financial crisis, but even if that is avoided the other costs of Brexit...
by Jim Hightower | Jun 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This year’s freakish presidential election has now devolved into an ethnic brouhaha between two foreigners: A Mexican and a German. The “Mexican” is Gonzalo Curiel, a U.S. federal judge who was born, raised, and educated in Indiana. The “German” is Donald Drumpf —...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
The tragedy in Orlando reveals that the three issues that once made up the Republican’s “winning formula” may have finally ripened into political poison for the GOP. In 1994, James Inhofe told Oklahoma voters that the senate race could be summed up in “the three Gs —...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, House Democrats and Republicans faced off over reasonable gun laws. Democrats held a sit-in to force a showdown with Republican leadership. Republicans blinked. If anyone in the House knows how to stand up to powerful opposition with moral strength, Rep....
by Richard Eskow | Jun 24, 2016 | Blog
Things are changing. A major crack has appeared in the edifice of globalization, and the neoliberal order that has dominated the world's economy since the end of World War II is now in danger. That's not necessarily a bad thing, by any means. But poisonous weeds are...
