by Stan Collender | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog
This is not a post about House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) exercise and diet program. It is, however, a post about how he's planning to produce a budget that gets to balance in 10 years without actually balancing anything. What Ryan is proposing is...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog
Yesterday we saw what a filibuster should be. Senator Rand Paul did it the right way by talking and talking, and he got his point across. Interestingly, what Senator Paul did is what the public thinks a filibuster already is. Except it isn't. In recent years Senate...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog
This week the Swiss people voted to limit bonuses for the high-paid executives they call “fat cats.” Last month shareholders at the largest too-big-to-fail bank revamped the bonus system for their senior executives. And the European Union agreed last month to impose...
by Katrina vanden Heuvel | Mar 6, 2013 | Blog
On Friday at midnight, the sequester kicked in, triggering $85 billion in deep, dumb budget cuts that sent “nonessential personnel”— such as air traffic controllers—packing. Not to worry, though: Wall Street’s day was pretty much like any other. Billions of dollars in...
by Liz Rose | Mar 6, 2013 | Blog
Dozens of Americans will be murdered, hundreds of others will be shot, and nearly 1,000 will be robbed or assaulted with a gun — today. The United States has some of the weakest gun laws in the world. To make us, our families, and our communities safer, we need to...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 5, 2013 | Blog
Bloomberg Businessweek created quite a stir last week when it illustrated a cover story about the return of risky mortgages with artwork that was widely interpreted as racist because ... well, see for yourself. The cartoon drawing showed only people of color - people...
