by Terrance Heath | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the only federal agency out to protect the financial interests American consumers. Naturally, big banks and moneyed interests want to shut it down. A new campaign says, “Not without a fight.” If any good came out of the...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog, Education, Tax Reform
Earlier this week, news reporters and public officials expressed shock at the revelations from an unprecedented leak of files from one of the world's largest law firms representing offshore investing. As The Guardian explains, the leaked documents, called the Panama...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Tax Reform
It's no surprise that the chairman of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt, would use The Washington Post's editorial page to defend himself and his company from an attack from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who told the New York Daily News editorial...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
It sounds like a match between a second-rate comic book hero-and-villain pair: the Golden Boy vs. the Orange Man. Thus it’s fitting in more ways than one that former House Speaker (and first “orange” speaker) John Boehner perhaps started the ball rolling. At a Futures...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 6, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce claims to be "a business federation representing companies, business associations, state and local chambers in the U.S., and American Chambers of Commerce abroad." They claim to be "the voice of" their members. They are supposed to...
by Bill Scher | Apr 6, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
The Republican Party is ceasing to be a cohesive party. In Wisconsin, one-third of Republican primary voters wouldn't vote for either of the party's leading candidates in the general election. As NBC News analyzed: When asked what they would do if [Ted] Cruz were the...
