by Richard Eskow | Mar 20, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Whenever Washington politicians get together on something "bipartisan," there's a very good chance it's a lobbyist-driven initiative - one that will enrich the lobbyists'' patrons, generate campaign funds for pliant politicians, and stick it pretty much everyone else....
by Dave Johnson | Mar 20, 2012 | Blog
Republicans want to "reform" the Export-Import Bank. Uh Oh. Lobbyists pushing this "reform" say helping American companies compete against subsidized foreign-made goods is "corporate welfare." It turns out that a lot of the noise isn't about what the lobbyists say it...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 20, 2012 | Blog
The chair of Sunoco’s board of directors is a refinery assassin. Lynn Laverty Elsenhans, who will remain Sunoco chair until May, tried to kill off a Shell refinery in Bakersfield, Calif., when she was CEO at Shell Oil Products. At Sunoco, where she was CEO until March...
by Bill Scher | Mar 20, 2012 | Blog
Last week on Fox News, while chatting with Mitt Romney about President Obama's citations of increased domestic oil production, Sean Hannity retorted, "He's claiming we've never produced more oil, but that is on private land." Similarly, on ABC's This Week this Sunday,...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 19, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
... is separation from reality caused by internalizing decades of endlessly repeated right-wing propaganda. This time it shows up in a discussion of the effect of top tax rates by Christina Romer. I hate to pick on Romer again, but... In the New York Times' Economic...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 19, 2012 | Blog
Republican presidential wannabe/spoiler Rick Santorum has said a lot of crazy things. And I mean a lot. His latest, however, may take the prize. Not satisfied with being a leading voice on climate change denialism, Santorum is trailblazing new ideological territory:...
