by Alan Jenkins | Apr 3, 2012 | Blog
Most Americans correctly understand that the economic meltdown was caused by a perfect storm of misconduct in the lending and financial industries and inadequate rules and enforcement. A 2010 Pew Financial Reform Project poll, for example, found that American likely...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 3, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
A trio of governors and a duo of lieutenant governors last week dined on pink slime burgers and pronounced them mouth-wateringly-delicious-and-nutritious as TV cameras rolled on their barbeque in a Nebraska factory that manufactures the stuff. Shoppers have reacted...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 3, 2012 | Blog
The "move your money" movement made a lot of noise a few months ago by encouraging individuals to close their accounts at the big banks at the root of the financial crisis. That movement is now well into what Ilana Berger, the co-director of New Bottom Line, calls...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 3, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
American tax dollars should employ American workers and build American companies. But the Bay Bridge project not only didn't do that, it paid to build up a new Chinese state-owned competitor that will bid against American companies on future projects! Let's not make...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 2, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
In 2010, Christopher Beam reported that Rep. Paul Ryan (WI, R) required his congressional staff to read Ayn Rand's Objectivist tome, Atlas Shrugged (now a major motion picture). Ryan has made no secret of his admiration for Rand's philosophy, and has cited her as "the...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 2, 2012 | Blog
The name in the headlines this month is George Zimmerman, shooter of Trayvon Martin. But another Zimmerman named the phenomenon we're witnessing almost fifty years ago, when he described the unnamed gunman who shot civil rights leader Medgar Evers: The deputy...
