by Jeff Bryant | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog, Education
One good thing you can say about 2011 is that it is a year in which lots of wrong-headed undertakings finally came to their ignominious conclusions -- including, among others, the Iraq War, the Gadhafi regime, the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, and "The Oprah...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog
The Obama Administration announced a $335 million settlement deal with Bank of America to settle charges of discriminatory lending practices. Here is, in ascending order of importance, the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Justice Department deserves praise for...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
David Brancaccio's Marketplace story Tuesday, Decline of Kodak offers lessons for U.S. business traced the decline of Kodak and the loss of Rochester, NY's good, middle-class jobs to Kodak's failure to tend its "industrial commons." This is a national problem. For...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog
Today's GDP report shows slow growth. It isn't declining growth so technically is not a recession, but not enough growth to lead to job gains. U.S. Economy Grew at a 2% Rate in the Third Quarter, The United States economy grew at an annual rate of 2 percent in the...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog
In the day-to-day news about trade problems with China the bigger picture can get lost. America is giving up its competitive position in industries of the present and future and it is costing us. Even the people you would think would defend "free trade" are coming to...
