by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 17, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Some of today's most greedy are running giant multinationals. Some are just running their mouths. Their stories remind us just how much needs to change, economically and politically, in the year ahead. The essence of greed? Simple. Greed amounts to taking more than...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 16, 2012 | Blog
From a tragic weekend, a return to the daily grind of politics. Our hearts may not be in it, but the challenge is undying and the struggle is one: to protect each other and preserve our humanity in the face of relentless forces. Still, the tragedy haunts. A friend of...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 14, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform, Too Big To Jail
Senator Jeff Merkley, one of the handful of independent stalwarts on bank reform, today blasted the Attorney General for the Justice Department's apparent policy of giving big bankers a "get out of jail free" card. As he notes British bank HSBC admitted to serial...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 14, 2012 | Blog, Chained CPI
The latest proposal to cut Social Security coming from our out-of-touch DC elites literally says that because old people cut back to cat food when people food is expensive, then we shouldn't let Social Security rise enough to keep covering people food. It literally...
by Bill Scher | Dec 14, 2012 | Blog
Yesterday I noted that the main Senate Republican arguments against filibuster reform pretend that Democrats want to do away with minority filibusters, when in fact the proposals on the table simply ensure that filibusters be conducted in public view. Today, the...
by Stan Collender | Dec 14, 2012 | Blog
With 17 days as the crow flies before it happens, it's time for me to do something I've been resisting for a week or so: formally increase my odds that we'll go over rather than avoid the fiscal cliff. Back in September I said it was better than 50-50 that no deal...
