by Bill Scher | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog
From progressive activists to mortgage bankers to Wall Street traders, the drumbeat is getting louder and louder for Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Edward DeMarco to end his resistance and act to end the housing crisis by allowing principal to be...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Perhaps my reaction to the latest unemployment statistics is colored by the fact that I'm reading them in Africa, far from the comfortable familiarity of Washington, New York, and California. There's nothing like the songs of unfamiliar birds as the sun rises over the...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog
Conservatives love Small Town America™. They extol its virtues all the time. Too bad conservative economics is wiping Small Town America™ off the map. Move over ! Two years ago, I wrote that Colorado Springs was a conservative "Utopia," for its rejection of tax...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog
Just what is this Koch Industries? Should it be called a "company?" If so we need to re-think the idea of what a company and a business is supposed to be. Even the brother of Koch Industries owners David and Charles Koch called the company an "organized crime"...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog
Voting doesn’t work anymore. If it did, Americans would get what they want -- or at least some of it -- from Washington. But they don’t. Instead of the people’s priority, which is jobs, country club conservatives in Congress stubbornly fixate on deficits. Instead of...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the year of protecting Social Security, and the year of cutting Social Security. It was the age of defending Medicare, and the age of ending Medicare. In other words, it was another day on the Mitt Romney...
