by Terrance Heath | Dec 3, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is scheduled today to go before Congress' Joint Economic Committee, where she is expected to declare that the recovery from the Great Recession is nearly complete, and that it is time to raise interest rates again. But progressives...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
You might have heard a few things about terror and ISIS and refugees in the last few weeks. There has been a lot of scare talk and propaganda about how refugees are going to swarm in and shoot all of us. You might not have heard that Republicans in Congress are...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Republicans in Congress and the corporate-funded conservative echo chamber (redundant) are temporarily pausing from scaring people with "deficit" propaganda and are instead working on an end-of-the-year backroom deal to give out several hundred billion dollars in tax...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
A Thanksgiving holiday marred by shootings should remind us that our biggest terrorist threat comes not from Syrian refugees fleeing extremist violence, but from homegrown right-wing extremists. Minneapolis On the Monday before Thanksgiving, white supremacists shot...
by Bill Scher | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog, Climate
President Barack Obama had returned home from his trip to Paris, where he helped kick off the United Nations climate summit. He had a consistent theme, familiar to those who follow Obama's rhetoric closely: Embracing clean energy also creates clean energy jobs. On...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 1, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The U.S. Business and Industry Council (USBIC) has launched a media campaign intended to drive awareness of the lack of enforceable currency provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). USBIC represents domestic manufacturers and has an excellent Trading Away...
