by Richard Eskow | Nov 1, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Perspective's hard to come by in the heat of the moment, but it's already clear that this week's election is profoundly important. The forces of small-"d" democracy are up against a cabal of ultra-powerful financiers who, in an unending quest for greater wealth and...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 31, 2010 | Blog
Ah, the things we forget. This was then: Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan greenlighted the Bush tax cuts, saying that Clinton was paying down the country's debt too fast as a result of modest taxes on the wealthy. So the Bush tax cuts for the rich passed, which...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 31, 2010 | Blog
The Tea Party hates the Federal Reserve. You hear it over and over: Tea Partiers support audit of Federal Reserve. Tea Party could challenge Federal Reserve. From Tea Party Advocates, Anger at the Federal Reserve. Audit the Federal Reserve - Toledo TEA Party. Tea...
by Sara Robinson | Oct 29, 2010 | Blog
One of the biggest problems facing the Democrats going into this election is that they're getting absolutely zero respect for everything they've done for the average American over the past two years. Tax cuts, health care reform, financial reform, expanded veterans'...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 29, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
This is not your country. Nor is it mine. That we were born here, along with our forebears hardly matters. This has been the message of the Tea Party since its incorporation — and of conservatism itself for more than a generation — to anyone who doesn't'...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 29, 2010 | Blog
African-American voters are once again in a pivotal position to decide on November 2 who controls the House of Representatives, and by extension whether the economic damage done to African American families in the past decade will be repaired in the foreseeable...
by Bill Scher | Oct 29, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
No matter what happens on Tuesday, progressives will not have unfettered control of Washington, just as we have not the last two years, the last decade, the decade before that, or the decade before that. We will have to fight for more change. The question is: who will...
by Bill Scher | Oct 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Bernanke Wants Congress To Back...
by | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog
We're working with some of the best state-level bloggers from around the country to help us tell the truth about key economic and social policy issues, and to draw the contrast between the rhetoric of the right and the progressive alternative. Please visit our CAF...
by Bill Scher | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog
Potentially overlooked in yesterday's blogger roundtable with President Obama is his response to the question "Will you rule out raising the retirement age to 70?" House Minority Leader John Boehner has explicitly backed the proposal, and a raise in the retirement age...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog
Polls show that a significant number of people who might be on "our side" are not going to bother to vote. Some are even switching sides. The big corporations and right-wing billionaires are spending millions upon millions of dollars bombarding them with propaganda on...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
The current debate over foreclosure fraud has been a revelation, even for those of us who have become familiar with the power of moneyed interests to influence the national dialog. Despite overwhelming evidence of widespread lawbreaking and deception, there's still a...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Conservative policies have propelled us into a global race to the bottom. Conservatives can take pride: we're winning! "Free trade" -- moving factories across borders to evade the protections of democracy that generations of Americans fought for -- pits exploited...
by Bill Scher | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog
While many progressives have lamented the inability of the President and the congressional leadership to pass legislation capping greenhouse gas emission, few have recognized that the White House always had a Plan B for averting the climate crisis - the EPA. But if...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
The electorate is bitter and angry. It’s no wonder. Foreclosures rise while Wall Street bankers, whose recklessness caused this grave recession, grab million dollar bonuses. Unemployment is stuck at 9.5 percent, but corporations continue to ship jobs overseas. The...
by Zach Carter | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog
Corporate cash does funny things to people. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) got into office by pledging to fight "special interests," but just a decade or so later, he's running one of the biggest special interest shows in Washington. It's easy to see the appeal. As the fancy...
by Zach Carter | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
The New York Times should be embarrassed. This morning, the paper of record published an outrageous hit-piece on Raj Date, one of the most effective consumer advocates in the nation. The article completely misconstrues Date's work on financial reform, ignores his...
by Zach Carter | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
It's been pretty well-documented that the ultimate fate of Wall Street reform will depend on a series of highly technical proceedings at federal regulatory agencies. If regulators adopt tough new rules, the financial overhaul could succeed well beyond the expectations...
by Bill Scher | Oct 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. No Conservative Mandate Any GOP...
by | Oct 27, 2010 | Blog
We're working with some of the best state-level bloggers from around the country to help us tell the truth about key economic and social policy issues, and to draw the contrast between the rhetoric of the right and the progressive alternative. Please visit our CAF...
by | Oct 27, 2010 | Blog
We're working with some of the best state-level bloggers from around the country to help us tell the truth about key economic and social policy issues, and to draw the contrast between the rhetoric of the right and the progressive alternative. Please visit our CAF...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 27, 2010 | Blog
Still looking for a reason to vote? Here's a three word answer: health care reform. I'm not sure why Democrats aren't running on it, but it's a big step towards "change we can believe in" — the kind that some 66,882,230 (53% of the popular vote...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 27, 2010 | Blog
Wall Street, conventional wisdom has it, likes legislative gridlock. Stock prices tend to go up when Election Day results in the two major parties splitting power. As a USA Today story recently noted, “In the words of many Wall Street analysts and economists: Gridlock...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 27, 2010 | Blog
Make no mistake: They're not just trying to roll back Social Security. They're trying to dismantle the entire New Deal, piece by piece. There are at least "310,000,000 Reasons to Vote," one for each and every American citizen. But there's also a 310,000,001th reason:...
by Bill Scher | Oct 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. GOP Prepares To Use Budget Ax,...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 26, 2010 | Blog
This morning's interview with Sonali Kolhatkar for KPFK's morning program, "Uprising," was worthwhile for me because Sonali was asking exactly the right questions: Where exactly did the "fraud" take place - during the foreclosure process, as these mortgages were being...
by | Oct 26, 2010 | Blog
We're working with some of the best state-level bloggers from around the country to help us tell the truth about key economic and social policy issues, and to draw the contrast between the rhetoric of the right and the progressive alternative. Please visit our CAF...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 26, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Tea Party members hate Wall Street bailouts, trade deals like NAFTA, job outsourcing, giant corporations buying laws, government spending, and elites telling the rest of us what to do. But there is no question that their candidates - many of them wealthy corporatists...
by Bill Scher | Oct 26, 2010 | Blog
While much of the traditional media has been diligently reporting on how Corporate America is doing nothing wrong by using secret donors to fund its multi-million attack ad blitz, they have ignored the explosive evidence of how the shady underworld of professional...
by Bill Scher | Oct 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Who Will Show Up On Election Day?...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 25, 2010 | Blog
I get it. Believe me, I get it. Every day I talk to people - especially progressives - who are deeply disappointed with the leaders they worked so hard to elect. The litany of letdowns seems endless: Guantanamo. The public option. Don't ask, don't tell. Too big to...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2010 | Blog
The G-20 is trying to calm fears of a currency war and will take up currency problems again when leaders meet in November. Bloomberg: G-20 to Avoid `Competitive Devaluation,' Prod China, Group of 20 finance chiefs vowed to avoid weakening currencies to lift exports...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Visit the "I'm Voting For..." campaign Should you vote? Does your vote matter? If you care about jobs, your vote really, really matters this time. If the Tea Party wave does manage to take over the House and/or Senate the plans they have announced will mean a jobs...
by | Oct 25, 2010 | Blog
That's founder and first supreme court justice John Jay. Must-see video from GRIT TV about the Chamber of Whores: More here. Obviously, Big Money has always been the most powerful influence in American politics (maybe all politics.) But until they adopted the Randian...
by | Oct 25, 2010 | Blog
We're working with some of the best state-level bloggers from around the country to help us tell the truth about key economic and social policy issues, and to draw the contrast between the rhetoric of the right and the progressive alternative. Please visit our CAF...
by Zach Carter | Oct 25, 2010 | Blog
The Tea Party likes to wrap itself in "grassroots" contempt for wealthy elites, but the 12 leading Tea Party Senate candidates have accepted over $4.6 million in campaign contributions from Wall Street for the upcoming election. Despite all the Tea Party rhetoric...
by | Oct 25, 2010 | Blog
We're working with some of the best state-level bloggers from around the country to help us tell the truth about key economic and social policy issues, and to draw the contrast between the rhetoric of the right and the progressive alternative. Please visit our CAF...
by | Oct 25, 2010 | Blog
We're working with some of the best state-level bloggers from around the country to help us tell the truth about key economic and social policy issues, and to draw the contrast between the rhetoric of the right and the progressive alternative. Please visit our CAF...
by | Oct 25, 2010 | Blog
We're working with some of the best state-level bloggers from around the country to help us tell the truth about key economic and social policy issues, and to draw the contrast between the rhetoric of the right and the progressive alternative. Please visit our CAF...
by | Oct 25, 2010 | Blog
We're working with some of the best state-level bloggers from around the country to help us tell the truth about key economic and social policy issues, and to draw the contrast between the rhetoric of the right and the progressive alternative. Please visit our CAF...
