by Leo Gerard | Dec 20, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Amid prolonged, painfully high unemployment, ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer for the past year tirelessly advocated a simple solution – buy American-made products. She clearly explained the reasoning: every American dollar spent on an American-made product helps create...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 20, 2011 | Blog
This last week we've seen how Washington's elites are able to suppress popular opinion, work against the public interest, and wrap it all up with a bow so that it looks like 'democracy in action.' It's not. What we're seeing isn't democracy, and it isn't a free press...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 19, 2011 | Blog
House Republicans are expected later today to engage in yet another one of their acts of economic sabotage. After a rare bipartisan agreement in the Senate to temporarily extend a worker payroll tax break and extended unemployment benefits for two months, getting both...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 19, 2011 | Blog
Paul Krugman notes Ireland is still "hailed as a success" (right up there with Latvia), when there was never anything about in Ireland's austerity policies — or the whole Eurozone embrace of austerity — that anyone could truly call successful. Not with a straight...
