by Mary Bottari | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
On Monday, Bank of America (BofA) stocks briefly traded for under $5. Yes, you could buy a share of BofA for less than the noxious debit card fee they tried to force down your throat. BofA is massive, with assets equivalent to 15 percent of U.S. GDP. So why is it...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog
The President has adopted the language of the 99%, and it's paying off for him. He's surged from a position slightly behind Mitt Romney in last month'sCNN polling to a 52%-45% lead against the Republican this week. While other factors were involved, his new rhetoric...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog
Sometimes my brain finds connections the strangest, seemingly most disparate stories among the many I read online every day. Two years ago, I wrote a rather longish blog post titled "Reclaiming 'We'." It was partly inspired by NY Times columnist Thom Friedman's...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog
The following was written by Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey. House Republicans have left no doubt: all they want is economic pain for political gain. Instead of accepting the bipartisan Senate bill, passed 89-10, to extend the payroll tax cut for a few months so a...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 20, 2011 | Blog
If you take a government program, change everything about it, destroy its core purpose, but keep the same name, is it the same program? Politifact.com says yes, and even goes so far as to say it is "The Lie Of The Year" to say it isn't -- because it still has the same...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 20, 2011 | Blog
"If I had a world of my own," said Alice, "everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't." I can't take it anymore. I just can't. In fact I'm falling down the rabbit hole even as we speak. 'PolitiFact,' a project...
