by Dave Johnson | Feb 21, 2013 | Blog
I was on Huffington Post Live today, talking about the story behind the recent news that the Postal Service is going to end Saturday deliver in August. I wrote about this recently in my post, The Postal Service Outrage.* This post outlines what is really going on with...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 21, 2013 | Blog
How come few if any of of the major-media articles reporting on Chinese hacking of computers in American businesses, news organizations and key infrastructure facilities mention that last year Senate Republicans filibustered a bill to do something about it? Here is a...
by Digby | Feb 21, 2013 | Blog
Get a load of this, from Lisa Graves at The Nation: Fix the Debt financier Peter G. Peterson knows a thing or two about debt: he’s an expert at creating it. Peterson founded the private equity firm Blackstone Group in 1985 with Stephen Schwarzman (who compared raising...
by Stan Collender | Feb 21, 2013 | Blog
A quick post about the new Bowles-Simpson plan that was announced yesterday because that's all it deserves: It's a total nonstarter. (If you haven't heard about it, here's Jeanne Sahadi's story from CNMoney.) Bowles and Simpson didn't have enough support to get their...
by Thom Hartmann | Feb 20, 2013 | Blog
You've heard of the birthers and the truthers, and probably even the tenthers and the nullifiers. But now it's time to meet the Simpson-Bowlers. Over the past few years, we've heard a lot of crackpot ideas. First there was Donald Trump and his jolly gang of birthers,...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 20, 2013 | Blog
Alan Simpson, along with Erskine Bowles, represents a well-funded cadre of spokespeople who are only willing to present a narrow band of corporate- and billionaire-friendly economic policies. There's just one approach in their world, one which Simpson and Bowles...
