by Radhika Raman | Jul 19, 2012 | Blog, Economy
I have an exercise for you. Don't worry: You can do it at your computer. Think about all the reasons why a multinational corporation would choose to move jobs to another country. Lower labor costs? More efficient and better educated workers? Potential to contribute to...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 19, 2012 | Blog
In a previous post, I wrote that Mitt Romney was booed at the NAACP convention when he reiterated his support for repealing health care reform was because, what health care reform means for African Americans. Many people in the audience probably knew what...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 18, 2012 | Blog
Before Andrew Leonard's paean to paying taxes (inspired by his house catching fire) sparked me to write a different post on Friday, I'd intended to write a wrap-up post, comparing Mitt Romney's NAACP speech to Joe Biden's speech. Something Vice President Biden said in...
by | Jul 18, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. There’s increasing nervousness on Capitol Hill these days about the one thing that has to be done on the budget before voters go to the polls. Unlike 2011, when multiple spending, tax and debt ceiling deadlines were...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 18, 2012 | Blog
I write from a patio overlooking the palmed courtyard of the Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The colonial vestiges have their appeal. Phnom Penh, which I imagined as a sleepy French influenced capital with rickshaws and tuktuks, is a bustling...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 18, 2012 | Blog
David Brooks says Obama's attacks on Romney's business record are "about capitalism." That's like saying an arrest for vehicular homicide is "about driving." Our economic "roads" are jammed with destructive drivers like Romney. They're menacing motorists with their...
