by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 13, 2013 | Blog
Can a democracy survive if the richest of the rich within it can pass on to their heirs, generation after generation, the vast bulk of their fortunes? In the United States, that question first became a top-tier topic of political debate back over a century ago....
by Richard Eskow | Jan 13, 2013 | Blog
A new press release says that forty more corporate CEOs, including JetBlue's, have joined a covert lobbying group for Wall Street, billionaires and the defense industry called "Fix the Debt." Fix the Debt is attacking Social Security, Medicare and other vital...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 11, 2013 | Blog
Well, there they go again. Less than a week after its chief economist apologized for wrongly imposing austerity on European nations – hey, sorry about that, unemployed millions! – the International Monetary Fund is misleading another country into the miasma of...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 11, 2013 | Blog
It's that time again. The folks at the Heritage Foundation (Jim DeMint's new perch) have published another "Index of Economic Freedom." I first encountered the index in April of 2010, when Heritage ranked Ireland in the top ten countries with the greatest degree of...
by Digby | Jan 11, 2013 | Blog
It remains one of the strangest and saddest aspects of our current economic debates that nobody seems to care all that much about our still painfully high unemployment. And it's probably a lot higher than we know: In December, the Bureau of Labor Statistics counted...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 10, 2013 | Blog
There is a big push going on to get the Senate to "fix the filibuster" so the majority can get things done, and the minority will stop obstructing literally everything. Today is a DAY OF ACTION for contacting senators to let them know that you want them to FIX THE...
