by Robert Borosage | Oct 22, 2013 | Blog
The Bureau of Labor Statistics September jobs report summarize the labor market before the damage inflicted by the government shutdown. It shows an economy that is treading water, barely creating enough jobs – 148,000 in September – to cover new entrants into the...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 21, 2013 | Blog
Scandal-tainted megabank JPMorgan Chase is losing legal ground in the wake of its multi-year crime wave (if the term "crime wave" seems harsh, we invite you to review the evidence here, here, and here.) But in the wake of its tentative $13 billion settlement with the...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 21, 2013 | Blog
If you think Republicans have learned a lesson from their "defeat" over the shutdown and debt-ceiling hostage-taking, then you're not paying attention to what they’re saying to each other online, on the radio and elsewhere. Here is a quick look around right-wing...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 18, 2013 | Blog
Republicans are always saying their policies will bring prosperity, to get people to vote for them. But when their policies are actually put to the test we see very different results. (Just look at how our society has been transformed since Reagan.) A recent study...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 17, 2013 | Blog
According to anonymous Capitol Hill sources, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi cautioned Democratic members of Congress on Thursday against "gloating" over the spectacular crash-and-burn that was the Republicans' government shutdown. No gloating over the...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 17, 2013 | Blog
Republicans believe that a bad economy works for them at election time. The thinking is that the public will turn on Democrats for not making things better. So they do what they can to make the economy bad. But maybe they went too far this time. This hostage-taking...
