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"...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 23, 2012 | Blog
Move over John Derbyshire. Make room for Kevin D. Williamson, the latest conservative to astound those of us who naively thought there was little the right-wing could do anymore that would leave us staring in open-mouthed disbelief. Sure, Republican Missouri Senate...
by Bill Scher | Aug 23, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
This week's Public Policy Polling poll showing Republican Sen. Scott Brown opening up a 5-point lead over Consumer Financial Protection Bureau architect Elizabeth Warren will certainly be a wake-up call to her campaign and her supporters. But will she, and we, draw...
by Roger Hickey | Aug 23, 2012 | Blog, Economy
The following is a short version of the visionary report "Prosperity Economics" by Jacob S. Hacker and Nate Loewentheil, endorsed by Campaign for America's Future, AFL-CIO, Center for Community Change, Economic Policy Institute, Leadership Conference on Civil and...
