by Dave Johnson | Dec 29, 2014 | Blog
If we let Congress pre-approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with Fast Track we won't need Congress anymore. Corporations will decide what the rules should be. This is for real. The next round of "NAFTA-style" trade agreements actually let corporate courts --...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 27, 2014 | Blog
Must watch, from Economy in Crisis through the USW Blog: [fve]http://youtu.be/W1WMiGsrhpA[/fve] Also (from 2011; it's worse now): 'Trade Deficit with China Has Cost 2.8 Million U.S. Jobs Over Past Decade." [fve]http://youtu.be/k_aiWswMQLc[/fve] For more recent figures...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 24, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peE9ORz5xkY] Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) discusses his upcoming role on the Senate Banking Committee (from The Zero Hour). They're calling it a “Christmas gift” for Wall Street. Last week the Federal Reserve announced that it's...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
It’s time to say goodbye to 2014, and wrap-up the first year of “Wingnut Week In Review.” But first, let’s trudge down memory lane and recall the best of the worse in wingnuttia this year. Meanwhile, Back At Bundy Ranch It all started when Cliven Bundy declared a...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog, Trans-Pacific Partnership
As soon as the new Congress is sworn in next year, the fight over Fast Track will begin. Start preparing now. David Cay Johnston, explains in "Full Speed Ahead On Secretive Trade Deal": (Note the 't' in his last name. I am David C JohnSON.) Early next year, after the...
by Bill Scher | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog
It's not as much fun to write about as a broken website, but Healthcare.gov is humming along this year. The Department of Health and Human Services reports that 6.4 million are now enrolled through the federally-run exchanges, and that number doesn't include those...
