by Bill Scher | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney says that anyone who criticizes his record while CEO of Bain Capital is putting "free enterprise on trial." But this doesn't make any sense. I have yet to have seen an argument from anyone on the left or the right criticizing Romney based on the notion...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog, Economy
There's one Newt Gingrich flip-flop I left out of my previous post about his latest flip-flop, concerning his on-again-off-again-on-again attack on Mitt Romney as a vulture capitalist. It's a big one, and — in typical Newt fashion — he says it really...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog, Economy
The Romney campaign's "Bain problem," which is also now the Republican party's problem, doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon. Sure, Republicans are figuring out that this is not a winning issue for them. Thus they've circled their wagons around Romney, and...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog
What would Martin Luther King do if he were alive today? Monday is the Martin Luther Kind national holiday, when we mark his birth and reflect on the ongoing movement for civil rights. human rights and economic opportunity and equality. King worked hard to help poor,...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog, Education
There's a reason why accountants traditionally wore green eyeshades. In their "vision-intensive, detail-oriented" work, they were prone to "eyestrain" caused by scrupulous attention to columns and rows of numbers on a ledger. Now, of course, the strain is lessened by...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog
Bain Capital must seem like a Frankenstein monster to Mitt Romney's campaign. Like Mary Shelley's creature, it's stalking its creator just as he's about to claim the thing he loves most. But Bain Capital—and Bain capitalism—isn't Mitt's creation. It was sewed together...
