by Bill Scher | Jun 19, 2014 | Blog
36,120 Virginia Republican primary voters just tossed out the House majority leader, a sign that the GOP civil war continues to simmer. But earlier this month, conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat opined that it's the Democratic coalition that is a...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 19, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
Medtronic is as American a company as they come. The surgeon who created its original technology was born and raised in Minnesota, where he lived his entire life. He was educated at a public university there, which is where he eventually conducted his research....
by Dave Johnson | Jun 18, 2014 | Blog, Trade
President Obama talked and took questions about manufacturing at TechShop Pittsburgh Tuesday. He touted his efforts to boost manufacturing and even showed off his DODOcase on his iPad because the DODOcase prototype was developed at a TechShop. The president's talk was...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 18, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Last week Treasury Secretary Jack Lew (D-CITI) gave a major address on the economy. (Transcript here, video here.) But the biggest fixable factor affecting jobs and the economy wasn't mentioned at all: the trade deficit. In fact, a Google search of "Jack Lew" and...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 17, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
Ketchup king H.J. Heinz Co. announced last week that it's working with Ford to convert tomato waste into auto parts. Now that's an innovative Fusion! In addition, it is further proof that Americans can do anything. They sent a man to the moon and a rover to Mars. They...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 17, 2014 | Blog, Economy
The go-to intellectual guardians of our corporate order — those conservative analysts whose op-eds appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal — have a problem. Their defense of plutocracy just isn’t selling. Two events this spring have now put this failure in...
