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...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 12, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Only the worst kind of wingnut could conclude that America is “awesome” in spite of — or because of — “forced anal feeding and re-hydration” of detainees. But that’s what we heard this week. Well, now we know. America did a whole lot more than “torture some folks.”...
