by Dean Baker | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
A bipartisan group of senators recently put forward a proposal for new Glass-Steagall legislation that would restore a strict separation between commercial banks and speculative trading. Anyone familiar with the ways of Washington knows that such legislation is badly...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
Giving unemployment benefits to unemployed people keeps them from going to your boss and offering to do your job for half what you are paid. Better yet, asking government to make sure everyone has a job means your employer has reason to keep you happy and well-paid so...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
"People are living longer so we have to increase the Social Security age." You hear that a lot. Here is why this is just wrong. "Life expectancy" is a technical term used in statistics. It almost always means "life expectancy at birth" instead of what people think it...
by Digby | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
David wrote about this Carville-Greenberg polling memo showing that seniors seem to be changing their minds about policy and the GOP. Its summary starts like this: There’s something going on with seniors: It is now strikingly clear that they have turned sharply...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 7, 2013 | Blog
President Obama’s Justice Department, under the direction of Attorney General Eric Holder, hasn’t indicted a single bank executive for the massive Wall Street crime wave that devastated the economy. The regulatory reform that followed the 2008 crisis wasn’t nearly...
by Thom Hartmann | Aug 7, 2013 | Blog
Many hard-right conservative voters are threatening to sit out the 2014 midterm elections, because they say some Republican lawmakers aren't doing enough to obstruct healthcare and immigration. Even Tea Party favorites, like Senator Marco Rubio, are under attack for...
