by Robert Reich | Feb 18, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Suppose that by enacting a particular law we’d increase the U.S.Gross Domestic Product. But almost all that growth would go to the richest 1 percent. The rest of us could buy some products cheaper than before. But those gains would be offset by losses of jobs and...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 18, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Cultural references may seem frivolous in the face of a financial crisis, but the Eurozone's Greek crisis is at least as much cultural as it is economic in nature. It's partly an anthropology problem: Europe's negotiators are under the spell of a German-driven...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Feb 17, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Woe to the American president who says anything sensible on the subject of religion. President Obama forgot that unwritten rule recently at the National Prayer Breakfast when he pointed out what an eighth-grader could tell you: that acts of violence have been...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Health, Jobs and Growth
The president is right. Staples is cutting workers’ hours (and paychecks) to avoid providing health insurance. Shame on them, but that’s only half the story. Earlier this week, Buzzfeed reported that the office supply giant Staples Inc., has begun limiting part-time...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 11, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Silicon Valley companies dodge taxes and use some of the money to build shiny, luxurious, and private bus lines for their employees. The rest of us are — literally — stuck, because the tax scams these companies engage in have de-funded our — We the People's — ability...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog, Economy
CEOs would never bet against their own companies, would they? CEOs get paid, after all, multiple millions to make sure their companies succeed. Why would they ever put their money on their own companies failing? The quick answer: to make sure those millions keep...
