by Robert Borosage | Dec 16, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
The government didn’t shut down. Congress passed the massive – 1,603 page – spending bill, chock full of special interest giveaways, to keep the doors open. The Washington Post editorial page, the voice of the conservative establishment, acknowledges all the horrors –...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 16, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KytY-uXUnok] Sen. Bernie Sanders (audio) with Richard Eskow No sooner had the infamous “Citigroup amendment” been added to a vital spending measure than the warnings began. One of the first was from Rob Blackwell, writing in...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 15, 2014 | Blog, Democracy, Financial Reform
The budget bill called the "Cromnibus" (for Continuing Resolution and OMNIBUS budget bill) passed over the weekend. It included a provision undoing part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street regulation bill, allowing banks to gamble on derivatives using money from...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 15, 2014 | Blog, Economy
How has the United States become so unequal? We need to look for answers, first and foremost, in our society’s underlying economic and political realities, at the policies and practices that let wealth concentrate — at the top — so intensely. But we also ought to look...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 15, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Last week Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned that “the House of Representatives is about to show us the worst of government for the rich and powerful.” They promptly did, and the Senate quickly followed suit. We are now at greater risk of another derivatives-based...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 14, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
If this week is a preview of what we’re in for with the next Congress, get ready to step through the looking glass and into a world where executive actions are impeachable offenses, and Duck Dynasty is Broadway bound. What a difference an election makes! Remember just...
