by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 3, 2015 | Blog, Economy
Sometimes facts can fly. All around the world. Over the last year or so, no one has been flying facts more effectively than the folks at Oxfam, the activist global charity. A year ago, an Oxfam report revealed that the world’s 85 richest billionaires had as much...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 3, 2015 | Blog, Economy
Washington's upcoming budget battle could become the next front in the war against austerity. That's the bank-friendly economic ideology whose forces now span the globe: Europe has the Germans, and we have the Republicans. But who in this country will take the role of...
by Michael Winship | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Economy
My friend Craig Zobel just premiered his new movie at the Sundance Film Festival. Z for Zachariah is based on a young adult novel from the seventies about a post-apocalyptic world and a woman who lives on a farm in a remote valley. A geographic anomaly, the valley has...
by Bernie Horn | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog
Why won’t people listen? They’re so irrational! You make a sensible, even irrefutable political argument and they’re still not persuaded. Cognitive science tells us that persuasion is hard. When deciding whether to agree with you, people rely on emotion and ingrained...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Financial Reform, Progressive Vision
President Obama has submitted a budget proposal that (finally) signals a break from cuts and austerity. It largely pushes in the right direction. Republicans will oppose it — even the parts they agree with. Signals Dividing Line Between Cutbacks And Public Investment...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Tax Reform
President Obama rolls out his budget today, triggering the next salvos in the debate about America’s future. The president’s budget calls for ending the destructive caps on federal spending known as the “sequester.” It would make vital investments in infrastructure,...
