by Robert Borosage | Oct 27, 2013 | Economy
Congress is now lurching back towards another self-inflicted budget crisis. The new deadline is a budget deal by mid-January to avoid a government shutdown and lifting the debt ceiling by February to avoid default. Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell sensibly...
by Thom Hartmann | Oct 24, 2013 | Current Issues, Economy, The Jobs Challenge
A coalition of public interest groups wants Congress to stop the Trans Pacific Partnership. The groups sent a letter to several ranking members of Congress, asking them to deny President Obama's request to fast-track the T.P.P., and hold on to their Constitutional...
by Digby | Oct 23, 2013 | Economy, Health, Progressive Vision
Mike Konczal has written a provocative post that is getting quite a bit of play today and is well worth reading. He posits that the rough Obamacare rollout is a direct consequence of misplaced faith in neo-liberal solutions, which he defines in this instance as a...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 21, 2013 | Economy
A tiny tax on global personal wealth over $1 million could ensure that no child anywhere on the planet has to live in extreme poverty. The folks at Rolls-Royce have just opened a brand-new dealership — in the poverty-stricken Philippines. This nation of nearly 100...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 17, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Health, Retirement Security, Shutdown, This Is The GOP
Remember in 2009, when Jim DeMint said health care reform would be President Obama's Waterloo? Four years later, defunding health care reform became the GOP's Alamo. But Republicans aren't done damaging their party, or the rest of the country, yet. Not by a long shot....
by Digby | Oct 16, 2013 | Current Issues, Economy, Retirement Security
I know there is no more trite phrase in America, but Lord, this Thomas Friedman column is bad. It's so bad you have to read the whole thing to experience the full horror of it. In fact, I'm not even sure he wrote it himself. It reads more like something the messaging...
