by Richard Eskow | Apr 12, 2012 | Blog
The sweetheart deals just keep coming. Lawbreakers at one bank after another are let off the hook as their shareholders write a check. And then they go out and repeat the illegal behavior they promised not to do in the last settlement. It shouldn't be surprising that...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 12, 2012 | Blog
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is the embodiment of today's Republican Party and everything it has come to represent. You name it, Christie's got it: Disingenuous, smug, nasty? Check. Robotic servant of the corporate class, foisting its lobbyists' prefabricated...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 12, 2012 | Blog
This will make you long for the mythical days of "liberal media bias." A news story in The Washington Post this morning bashes the current debate around the Buffett rule in a classic case of conservative media bias. The story, in its too-cute lead-in, declares that...
by Bill Scher | Apr 12, 2012 | Blog
Notice something odd about the conservative excuses for opposing the Buffett Rule? *** ...the money that would be brought in by the government through this sort of tax increase would hardly reduce the growing federal debt. The debt is too large, and the revenue would...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 12, 2012 | Blog
Today the Western world is divided between two visions of our economic future. One vision is of austerity and the other is of growth. One is of hope and possibility, the other of despair and cynicism. The battle between these two visions has divided the United States...
