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...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog
Republicans continue to expose the real Romney: In Politico, Richard Viguerie, the New Right mass mail mogul, makes the case that Romney is a lowlife "crony capitalist" To Mitt Romney, venture capitalist, the average worker is an expendable line on a spreadsheet,...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog
It's starting to look like Newt Gingrich has more in common with Mitt Romney than just a background in vulture capitalism. During the Iowa primaries, Gingrich attacked Romney's "flip-flops" on a number of issues, but Newt has his own list of "flip-flops." Yesterday he...
