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...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this month, in the sparsely populated Kentucky county that’s home to Bowling Green, officials voted to convert the place into a right-to-work (for less) sinkhole. The county officials did it at the bidding of big corporations. They certainly didn’t do it for...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
The midterm elections were a wake-up call. Voters had given up on the Democratic party as irrelevant – not really on their side, so they didn't bother to show up at the polls. But there are end-of-year holiday season bright spots for progressives as we think about the...
