by Alan Jenkins | Sep 20, 2011 | Blog
On Sunday, the sit-com Modern Family won a well-deserved five Emmy awards, including one for best comedy series. I’m a fan of the show, but can’t help thinking that it is a double-edged sword. The show depicts three inter-connected families who reflect a rich, 21st...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog
President Obama's address today on taxes and deficit reduction draws the broad contours of the economic reform argument exactly as they should be drawn, between a plan that calls for "shared sacrifice" to be actually shared by all rather than imposed on the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog
I watched President Obama's "deficit speech" this morning. My wife was listening from another room. She does not follow politics as closely as you and I do. The only thing she heard was "Medicare cuts." Why was Medicare in a speech about raising taxes on the rich?...
by Roger Hickey | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The Wall Street Journal and other media are reporting definitively on the Obama deficit plan to be announced on Monday. The big news: the President will not propose raising the Medicare eligibility age. So the millions of older workers and unemployed people now...
