by Dean Baker | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
Sen. Elizabeth Warren kicked off a firestorm last month when she said that she would not support Antonio Weiss, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be undersecretary of the treasury. Her reason was that Weiss had made his career at Lazard, an asset management company...
by Bill Scher | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog
Updated January 18, 2017 .. with bonus 4th chart! The back-to-back Bush and Obama administrations allow us to easily compare the effectiveness of liberal and conservative economic policies. President George W. Bush's record is highlighted by tax cuts largely aimed at...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders released an Economic Agenda for America last week, detailing 12 reforms to help make this economy work for working people once more. “The question of our time,” he said in a fiery speech, “is whether or not we are prepared to take on the...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 5, 2014 | Blog, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Obama administration is negotiating a huge trade deal. The President promises CEOs he will go against his own party to push its passage. To get this done the corporations are pushing Congress to pass something called Fast Track -- a process that essentially...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 5, 2014 | Blog
The November Bureau of Labor Services jobs report was relatively good news – a healthy 321,000 new jobs, leaving unemployment unchanged at 5.8%. The BLS also added 44,000 jobs in an adjustment for the prior two months. The Commerce Department reports that the economy...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 5, 2014 | Blog
The following was co-authored by Richard Long As powerful protests of the New York Eric Garner grand jury decision – We can’t breathe – swept across the country, low wage fast food and retail workers walked off their jobs in some 180 cities, demanding a living wage...
