By Rick Perlstein First, they came for the spinach. I remember the day last September. The supermarket had a new kind of salad dressing, one that looked like it would […]

In light of today’s terrible job numbers, it’s a bittersweet experience to re-read a recent report from Wells Fargo Bank which argues that high unemployment is “the new normal.” While […]

The Washington Post published an investigative report on how fossil fuel companies are “spending significant sums of money” to directly fund public schools that teach biased curriculums that promote their […]

From a top financial analyst group, new evidence that the human race, as a whole, has never been richer. So why are governments forcing austerity on so many of the […]

Most people don’t know that there is a huge loophole in the Social Security tax. Believe it or not, after $107K income you don’t pay any Social Security tax. This […]

Hours after I called attention to a column by former Reagan and Bush 41 economic adviser Bruce Bartlett that debunked the right-wing narrative that taxes on the wealthy are too […]

An email entitled “Lies of Eskov in HP AOL Ariticle” (sic) was received this morning at the office of the Campaign For America’s Future and forwarded to me with the […]

Today, Speaker John Boehner released a list of 150 economists who back the Republican position that an hike in the debt limit should be conditional on spending cuts greater than […]

Over the last two weeks, progressives have sparked a massive grassroots groundswell for Elizabeth Warren’s appointment to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and rein in reckless bankers. And how […]

The House is voting on a “clean” debt ceiling bill this evening — a bill to raise the debt ceiling without any “hostage-taking” conditions. This is the right thing to […]

Common sense on taxing corporations and millionaires continues to come from surprising places, such as an article on the New York Times Economix blog by Bruce Bartlett, who had economic […]

Originally published at Capital Gains and Games. House Republicans said last week that they were planning to bring up a “clean” debt ceiling bill for a vote, possibly as early […]

Last week’s special election in New York’s 26th Congressional district was a political earthquake, demonstrating that the American majority, even in the most Republican of districts, will reject a candidate […]

The American middle class, concludes a new study from the ad industry’s top trade journal, has essentially become irrelevant. In a deeply unequal America, if you’re over 35 and your […]

While I’m posting videos, here’s a debate on the death of the middle class I did on Russian Television with Harvard economist and Cato Institute maven Jeffrey Miron and Samuel […]

I participated in an MSNBC panel discussion with Cenk Uygur, Sam Seder, and conservative Matt Lewis. We discussed Cain, Mitch McConnell’s insistence on Medicare cuts as part of a budget […]

On Monday we’ll hear a lot of Memorial Day speeches about honoring our fallen soldiers and their disabled comrades. On Tuesday some of the politicians giving those speeches will try […]

Faced with a rapidly growing groundswell for Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, the Senate Republican leaders employed the ultimate obstruction on behalf of their Wall […]

Democrats have their strut back. The Republican assault on Medicare handed Democrats a club to pummel them with — as demonstrated by Democrat Kathy Hochul’s remarkable special election victory Tuesday […]

On Wednesday forty radicals in the United States Senate took an extremist position by voting to end Medicare. That simple sentence will be challenged by a lot of political and […]

Today, Wisconsin Judge Maryann Sumi ruled Governor Scott Walker’s “budget repair bill,” which would eviscerate collective bargaining rights for most public workers in the state, “null and void.” Sumi ruled […]

I won’t watch a movie if I’ve missed the beginning, and I hate missing endings so much that I won’t start watching a movie I can’t see through to the […]

I have long felt that it was unlikely that the President would allow substantial cuts to health care programs, since it is his signature issue. But since everyone in DC […]

Shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, a roll call vote that some Republicans were not-so-secretly dreading began, and the public began to know the names of the senators who were willing […]

Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Pete Davis’ Capital Gains and Games post on Tuesday about not being able to draw a conclusion about the results in the special […]

In 2010 Republicans and corporate front groups ran ad after ad after ad after ad claiming that Democrats had “Cut 500 billion from Medicare.” Those ads brought them the senior […]

Remember back in 2004, when Dubya won re-election and liberals started threatening to move to Canada? Well, maybe I should have considered it. Because according to OECD’s Better Life Index, […]

Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury Elizabeth Warren is now testifying to a House Oversight subcommittee, pitting America’s best middle-class champion against conservative […]

When Elizabeth Warren, the White House adviser who is setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, went to speak before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this morning, one of the […]

Enough with blaming public employees for all of America’s problems. Last week public employees in Oregon marched on the state Capitol with a billion dollars worth of recommendations for government […]

“Money doesn’t talk,” sang Bob Dylan, “it swears.” Rep. Patrick McHenry gave the week’s most famous seventy year old a dark birthday gift on Tuesday by proving that those lyrics […]

In DC the elite are gathered around tables discussing budget cuts but not jobs to cure a deficit largely caused by a lack of jobs and by tax cuts. The […]