by Dave Johnson | Oct 1, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Tax Reform
Washington elites are "optimistic" about another "reform." That's never good. According to an article in The Hill this week, "WH adviser 'optimistic' for corporate tax reform": A top economic official in the White House on Tuesday expressed confidence that the next...
by Bill Scher | Oct 1, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
Republicans hungry to win back the Senate had a strategic choice to make. Should they run on a comprehensive policy platform that detailed their conservative vision for the country? Should they pick one or two of their most popular ideas for legislation and promise to...
by Jasmine Tucker | Sep 30, 2014 | Blog, Economy
President Obama campaigned on an anti-war platform and has talked convincingly about moving gradually towards a world that is free of nuclear weapons, yet a new report shows that nearly half (45 percent) of the 16,300 nuclear weapons on earth belong to the United...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 30, 2014 | Blog
You may have heard that there is an oil and gas "boom" happening in the US. You might not know that there is a ban on exporting our own oil. This ban is good for the country but bad for oil companies. And the oil industry is attempting an end run around Congress to do...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 30, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Trade
Our 2010 Reagan Revolution Home To Roost series, especially the post Reagan Revolution Home To Roost — In Charts described the beginning of the great decoupling of the American economy from the middle class. The summary: Conservative policies transformed the United...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 28, 2014 | Blog, Economy
What is it going to take to save the planet from environmental devastation? Sheer people power? We certainly saw that on the eve of last week’s United Nations Climate Summit in New York. Some 400,000 marchers packed the streets of Manhattan. Millions more rallied that...
