by Bill Scher | Aug 27, 2012 | Blog
There is already plenty of attention being paid to MSNBC's Chris Matthews telling the Republican Party chair to his face that the Romney campaign is playing the "race card" by running dishonest ads about welfare and making birth certificate jokes. But Matthews is not...
by | Aug 27, 2012 | Blog, Economy, The Sequester
The author is the Director of Public Policy for POGO (Project On Government Oversight) The big Pentagon contractors have been trying to scare lawmakers, the public, and the troops with dramatic claims that there will be massive job losses. For nearly a year, these...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 26, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The national leader of one of America's feistiest unions is aiming to expand the economic fairness debate. He's proposing a cap on incomes at the top that rises only if incomes at the bottom rise first. With Labor Day fast approaching, what better time to reflect...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 24, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney (or someone) writes (or writes for him) in Murdoch/Al-Waleed's Wall Street Journal, that lessons he learned at Bain Capital will help him turn the country around if he is elected President. Is he right? In WSJ: Mitt Romney: What I Learned at Bain Capital,...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 24, 2012 | Blog, Too Big To Jail
Every day we rise and tell ourselves this will be a good day, free of that unique combination of predation, self-pity, mediocrity and disingenousness which characterizes the modern bank executive. And every day somebody proves us wrong. Today it's William B. "Bill"...
