Why should the Teapublicans agree to Obama and the Democrats’ (aka ‘Timidcrats’) offers to settle the debt ceiling issue? Any seasoned negotiator…
Today, Friday July 22, Obama and House majority leader, Boehner, are reportedly about to agree to a $3 trillion spending cuts only…
A few weeks ago in late June it leaked out that Vice-President Biden had secretly agreed with Republicans to $1 trillion in…
Hang on to your economic crisis hat. The recession that never really ended is coming back. Economic recovery under the Obama administration…
While politicians and business press pundits last March-April were proclaiming the jobs crisis was over, this writer predicted that “March-April’s Job Gains…
In his July 4 editorial New York Times in-house economist Paul Krugman, identifies two important facts about jobs and taxes in the…
The breakdown on debt limit negotiations between Republicans and Democrats last week was over draconian cuts in the social wage (social security,…
The current offensive underway against Medicare by Paul Ryan and the House Republican majority is well known. Less well known is the…
This month marks the tenth year anniversary of the first of George W. Bush’s three general tax cuts, passed between 2001-2003, which…
An economic class war between business interests and wage earners has been growing in the U.S. for at least the last three…
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