by Isaiah J. Poole | May 5, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is on the verge of correcting a fundamental perversion of our justice system and restore to consumers their right to their day in court when they are wronged by a bank or credit card company. A new regulation that the agency...
by Dave Johnson | May 5, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In 2011 the Obama administration sold the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) by promising "more exports, more jobs". The U.S. Trade Representative's website on KORUS still offers those promises. It still says right there the agreement "means countless new...
by Dave Johnson | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Thursday has been declared a Verizon Strike National Day of Action. There are 39,000 Verizon workers on strike right now. They are not just striking for better pay and conditions from Verizon; this is also about how all of the giant corporations are treating all of...
by Terrance Heath | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
Today, President Obama is visiting Flint, Michigan for the first time since state officials revealed that the city’s water was contained with lead. The president was invited to Flint not by Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, but by eight-year-old Mari...
by Bill Scher | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism
Modern American Conservatism died last night at 7 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. It was 35 years old. Born with the 1980 presidential election of Ronald Reagan, conservatism had an impressive childhood. After cutting taxes for the wealthy, deregulating the economy,...
by Dave Johnson | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday that the March goods and services trade deficit fell to "only" an enormous, humongous level of $40.4 billion in March. This is $6.5 billion less than February (revised) but not for good reasons (see below). Chinese imports...
