by Robert Borosage | May 26, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In the run-up to 2016 presidential race, press attention is sensibly focused on the money primary – the candidates strutting their stuff before deep-pocket donors who will decide which candidates get a real shot to compete with the already established leaders, Jeb...
by Terrance Heath | May 22, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
This week, two right-winger who portrayed themselves as exemplars of virtue, and regularly lectured Americans on “family values,” proved to be far from “pure” themselves. Until this week, Josh Duggar was a celebrity in more ways than one. Not only was the 27-year-old...
by Richard Eskow | May 22, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
The Justice Department's latest settlement with felonious big banks was announced this week, but the repercussions were limited to a few headlines and some scattered protestations. That's not enough. We need to understand that our financial system is not merely...
by Dave Johnson | May 22, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The fast track trade promotion authority vote in the Senate is itself being fast tracked. The last time fast track was in front of the Senate, members spent three weeks discussing it. This time the Senate gets just a few days. The final Senate vote is coming up. Make...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 21, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
If you think allowing post offices to morph into neighborhood banking centers is at best a utopian fantasy, or a just plain crazy idea, the Postal Service Inspector General wants you to think again. The inspector general's office released a report today concluding...
by Dave Johnson | May 21, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fast track is being super-fast tracked in the Senate. Wall Street and the big corporations really, really want this one and the Senate is responding, including 13 "Democrats." When the fix is in and you are rigging the game anyway, why bother with the pretense of...
