by Bill Scher | Oct 18, 2011 | Blog
Over the weekend, NYTimes.com featured a Bloggingheads.tv discussion I had with Kristen Soltis of the Independent Women's Forum about the conservative response to the "We Are The 99%" mantra of the Occupy Wall Street protests: "We Are The 53%." After hearing the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 18, 2011 | Blog
A USA Today/Gallup poll published this morning suggests that "most Americans blame Wall Street for the nation's economic predicament — but they blame Washington more." Furthermore, when specifically asked who they blame most for the poor state of the economy, "64% of...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 18, 2011 | Blog
I'm filing this one under "Things I'd Do If I Won The Lottery." It's a long list. The only problem with it is that I never play the lottery, because "buying lottery tickets is an irrational act — the odds are hugely stacked against us." So, I've never won the...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 18, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Thanks to a hit piece by one of those Beltway pseudo-"bipartisans" we can now state conclusively what many of us have long suspected: Occupy Wall Street speaks for the American majority. We've got the polling numbers to prove it. We now know where the real center...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 18, 2011 | Blog
INTERVIEW Hear Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., talk about his push for defense spending cuts and the ability of the Occupy movement to influence the debate. Rep. Barney Frank is ratcheting up his longstanding push to reduce federal defense spending with a series of town...