by Dean Baker | Aug 12, 2013 | Blog
Glenn Hubbard, along with Tim Kane, had a column in the NYT today decrying the budget deficit. The column begins by repeating the warnings of that well known economic expert, Admiral Mike Mullen, that the debt is the “single biggest threat to our national...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 12, 2013 | Blog
Four years after Wall Street's malfeasance dealt a telling blow the economy, and long after tens of billions of dollars have been paid out for banker fraud, reports say that we're about to see the first arrests of Wall Street bank employees. What's more, the suspects...
by Thom Hartmann | Aug 12, 2013 | Blog
ALEC is holding its annual conference in Chicago, where corporate lobbyists and Conservative lawmakers will get together - have a few drinks - and create more corporate-friendly, middle-class-destroying legislation. At annual ALEC meetings, corporate lobbyists sit...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 12, 2013 | Blog
Most babies born in the U.S. today are children of color. In three decades, more than half of our population will be people of color. By 2050, 42 percent of our workforce will be African American and Hispanics. (Today that figure is 27 percent). Yet, even as diversity...
by Thom Hartmann | Aug 9, 2013 | Blog
There’s an undeclared war going on between the rich and the poor right here in the United States and the rich think they’ve found a way to win it. They’ve locked themselves into gated communities, lily-white suburbs, and wealthy urban neighborhoods and they’ve...
by Greg Kaufmann | Aug 9, 2013 | Blog
Congressman Paul Ryan recently said that Republicans “don’t have a full-fledged” plan to fight poverty “because we need to do more listening to people who are in the trenches fighting poverty.” He had the perfect opportunity to do just that at a recent House Budget...
