by Richard Eskow | Sep 6, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
Here's a new Zen riddle: What is the sound of money not talking? Sure, it talks sometimes. We heard it loud and clear at the Republican Convention. But sometimes the sound of money in politics is the sound of silence. It's the sound of crooked bankers being let off...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 6, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
The old dawg can still hunt. At the top of his game, gaining energy from the crowd, Bill Clinton, the “old country boy from Arkansas” tore it up last night in Charlotte. Political junkies, pundits of all stripes, and Democratic activists were agog, watching the...
by Bill Scher | Sep 6, 2012 | Blog
Democrats have been increasingly frustrated that not even an army of fact-checkers has been able shame the Romney-Ryan campaign from stopping their lies about Medicare savings, welfare requirements, the Janesville GM plant and more. The shamelessness is unlikely to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 5, 2012 | Blog
The 2008 financial crash was accompanied by a stunning level of greed and disregard for the law by some of the leading titans of the financial industry. As a result, millions of people lost homes, retirement savings or were otherwise financially devastated. And yet,...
by Bill Scher | Sep 5, 2012 | Blog
I have never seen opponents so silent about their record … They've run out of ideas. Their moment came and went. Fear and division are all they've got left. -- Republican VP nominee Paul Ryan Come again? Day 1 of the Democratic convention put their record front...
