by Bill Scher | Sep 8, 2015 | Blog
The Republican-controlled Congress returns from August recess today, having put off its homework for as long as it possibly could. Republicans have 22 days to come up with a plan to keep the government open for the next fiscal year, and they have not even begun to...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, President Obama gave a national landmark its name back. Wingnuts tried to make a mountain out of that molehill. President Obama made a historic trip to Alaska this week. What made it historic? Well, while there the president announced that he would restore...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics job report – 173,000 jobs created in August with headline unemployment edging down to 5.1 percent – is strong enough to stoke the noisy debate over whether the Federal Reserve should begin to raise interest rates despite the turmoil...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday that the July goods and services trade deficit was an enormous, humongous $41.9 billion. This is down from a revised $45.2 billion in June. This is an increase from May's enormous, humongous $40.9 billion trade deficit. We had...
by Jim Hightower | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
Some days, I get an irresistible compulsion to tear out my hair. My latest outbreak was triggered by a New York Times opinion piece by Peter Georgescu, the former chairman of the giant PR outfit Young & Rubicam. He issued a clarion call for his corporate peers to...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog
Jitu Brown is a mountain of a man, tall and broad shouldered – the kind of person whose presence you notice when he walks into a room and whose deep, resonate voice commands your attention. When you shake his hand, you can't help notice your palm completely disappears...
