by Dave Johnson | Nov 4, 2014 | Blog, Trade
According to the U.S. Commerce Department the massive U.S. trade deficit jumped 7.6 percent in September, draining another $43 billion from our economy in a single month. U.S. exports fell to their lowest in five months. Meanwhile, August's trade deficit was revised...
by Bill Scher | Nov 4, 2014 | Blog
Republicans may have control of the Senate in their grasp, largely thanks to a skewed 2014 electoral map. But Republican candidates showed that they couldn't get there by running as conservative ideologues, as our campaign-long Midterm Ad Watch series shows. An actual...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 4, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Why bother voting today? Conventional wisdom and history say that a lot of people won't bother – and that more of them will be Democrats than Republicans. Again and again, polls show that the public prefers Democrats and the policies that Democrats favor, but the...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 4, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
The rich always vote for themselves. They go for their self-interest, their tax breaks, their liability escapes (think Wall Street). Meanwhile, they've relentlessly instructed the non-rich that they too must vote for the rich. They've promised for decades that if the...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 3, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
[fve]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjnoMEPKqj8[/fve] Richard Eskow and Thom Hartmann discuss the “Caucus Room” conspiracy and the 2014 elections. On the eve of the 2014 elections, it’s important to remember that Republicans have been deliberately sabotaging both the...
by Dean Baker | Nov 3, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
By Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen gave a speech a few weeks ago that was doubly unusual. First, she provided a welcome and trenchant analysis of inequality, focusing on the stagnant income and wealth of middle- and low-income...
