by Robert Borosage | Feb 23, 2012 | Blog
The Obama administration released a “framework” for corporate tax reform yesterday, proposing to lower corporate tax rates, and pay for that by closing various corporate tax loopholes. The “framework” isn’t really a corporate tax reform proposal. It is a message...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 22, 2012 | Blog
The other day we appeared on Sam Seder's program, The Majority Report, to discuss the radical-right ideology of Edward DeMarco, a Bush appointee who became Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and continues in that role because Congress won't...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 22, 2012 | Blog
Anybody who doesn't believe that energy speculators can change election results might want to ask Gray Davis, the former Governor of California who was removed in a recall drive partly prompted by voter frustration over California's ongoing energy crisis. Only...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 22, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
Robert Reich says the economy's problem is that regular working people are not sharing in the gains that the economy makes. He says the idea that bringing back manufacturing will fix this is an illusion. I agree and disagree. In Manufacturing Illusions, Reich writes...
