by Richard Eskow | Dec 4, 2012 | Blog
The Republican Party has a message for the American people: Meet the new deal, same as the old deal. The GOP "counter-offer" to the President's fiscal-cliff proposal isn't really an offer at all: It's a rehash of the tired and extremist right-wing economic warfare...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 4, 2012 | Blog
If any conference was in need of a disruption, it was the "Fix the Debt" roundtable held this morning in the bowels of the Grand Hyatt hotel in downtown Washington. It took a group of protestors—among them a couple of African-American senior women, a male college...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 4, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Who are the real "job creators"? Contrary to conventional wisdom, the answer seems to be: People who have jobs - particularly those which pay well. Well-paid employees buy things, and that creates jobs for other people. And what creates those kinds of jobs? A...
by Stan Collender | Dec 4, 2012 | Blog
The offer made yesterday by House Republicans to the White House to avoid the fiscal cliff got all the headlines, but there were two reasons why it wasn't the most important fiscal cliff-related story of the day. First, it wasn't really a serious offer. In spite of...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 4, 2012 | Blog
The nation’s debt is a good deal for Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, the leaders of the failed deficit commission. The two are profiting personally by urging fat cats and CEOs to support their two-year-old, already-interred deficit reduction plan. Simpson, a former...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 3, 2012 | Blog, Economy
There is a little-discussed proposal that was introduced into the "fiscal cliff" discussions by the CEOs of the "Fix the Debt" campaign. This is for a “Territorial Tax System" idea that lets multinational companies off the hook for taxes on offshore profits. This plan...
