by Dave Johnson | Jun 4, 2015 | Blog, Trade
One of the problems with our trade policies is while they might set up rules for competition, these rules are meaningless if they are not enforced. And, by and large, they are not. We don't have very good trade enforcement even when we do use it – which we largely...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 4, 2015 | Blog, Education
While it's refreshing to see K-12 education become a prominent issue in the very early stages of the 2016 election campaigns, it's unfortunate to see support for the Common Core – the contentious new standards adopted by most states – become the focus of the debate....
by Robert Borosage | Jun 4, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday released a blistering 13-page letter to Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White, calling out her “extremely disappointing” leadership of what should be the chief cop on the financial beat, accusing her of "broken...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 4, 2015 | Blog, Retirement Security
Few political advisers would suggest running on a platform of open hostility toward the elderly. Most families include an older person, after all, and everyone who lives long enough will become older themselves someday. Seniors vote in greater numbers, too. That may...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 3, 2015 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the April goods and services trade deficit was an enormous, humongous $40.9 billion, down from an enormouser, humongouser $51.4 billion in March. (March was revised to $50.6 billion in today's report.) The monthly U.S....
by Bill Scher | Jun 3, 2015 | Blog
Another group of environmental alarmists wants to strangle the economy and kill jobs by slapping a tax on greenhouse gas pollution: oil companies. Specifically, BP, Shell and the heads of four other Europe-based oil giants published a letter in the Financial Times...
