by Richard Eskow | Dec 18, 2013 | Financial Reform
This week Sen. Elizabeth Warren and six colleagues introduced the Equal Employment for All Act, which would make it illegal for employers to disqualify job applicants based on their credit scores. It's an admirable and important bill which deserves our support. It...
by Digby | Dec 18, 2013 | Economy, Financial Reform, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
... introduces a very useful piece of legislation: Much of America – hard-working, bill-paying America – has a damaged credit rating. There are a lot of different reasons, but a lot of people just caught a bad break. They got sick. Their husband left or their wife...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 16, 2013 | Financial Reform
You probably don't pay much attention to those stories about companies doing "stock buybacks" – that's when a company decides to buy shares of its own stock, taking those shares off the market with the hope that the remaining shares of stock will increase in price....
by Thom Hartmann | Dec 10, 2013 | Economy, Financial Reform
Regulators want to start making banking boring again. Today, five different regulatory agencies are expected to adopt the Volcker Rule, which would redraw a line between regular banking and Wall Street gambling. The rule is one of the centerpieces of the Dodd-Frank...
by Digby | Dec 2, 2013 | Budget Talks, Conservatism, Economy, Financial Reform
In the post below, David asks an interesting question: Trickle-down economics is a known and proven failure. The experience of record stock market highs, record corporate profits, low effective tax rates and record income inequality in the context of a stagnant...
by Jeff Faux | Nov 26, 2013 | Budget Talks, Economy, Financial Reform, Minimum Wage
The deeper you are in the inner sanctums of power, the slower you are to get disturbing news from the rest of the world. So, I suppose it should be no surprise that it has taken so long for a prominent member of the American policy elite to suggest openly to his...
