by Dave Johnson | Jun 6, 2013 | Making it in America
The nominee for US Trade Representative (USTR) has just promised Congress that he will push for "Fast Track" authority. Fast Track essentially removes democracy from the trade negotiating and agreement process. It also gives negotiators the authority to go way beyond...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 5, 2013 | Financial Reform, Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
After 237 years, we’re becoming a colony again. Our nation's losing the right to self-determination it fought so hard to win, and it’s happening on a scale unseen since the days of George III. As is so often the case these days, this wholesale loss of our rights is...
by Derek Pugh | Jun 5, 2013 | Making it in America
Down with the deficit rhetoric; it's time for a bold approach that addresses our true crisis: a stagnant economy coupled with high unemployment. On Tuesday, progressives gathered at the Roosevelt Institute's first jobs conference, “A Bold Approach to the Jobs...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 5, 2013 | Making it in America
Ahead of President Obama's meeting China's President Xi Jinping later this week, and with our trade deficit with China up yet again, eight Senators from both parties joined today to introduce The Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Act of 2013. The eight are U.S....
by Dave Johnson | Jun 4, 2013 | Making it in America
On a press call yesterday in advance of this week's "summit" between President Obama and Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping, Alliance for American Manufacturing's (AAM) Scott Paul called for consequences for China's trade...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 3, 2013 | Making it in America
We the People put together a system here with schools, universities, scientific research, courts, a stable financial/monetary system, infrastructure like roads, dams, airports, and all the other components of a (used-to-be) prospering economy. That takes money, and...
