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Cliff Hanger: Why Republicans Don’t Care What the Nation Thinks
Are House Republicans about to succumb to public pressure and save the nation from the fiscal cliff? Don't bet on it.
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Economy Wrecker Alan Greenspan Was Central to the Formation of the Campaign to Fix the Debt
Greenspan somehow didn't recognize that the collapse of the housing bubble would devastate the economy.
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Six Ways to Juice Up the Labor Movement
The passage of the right-to-work law in Michigan was a blow to the labor movement.
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It’s Wages, Stupid! Progressive Tax Reform Alone Will Do Little to Close the Gap Between Haves and Productive Have-Nots
Stagnating real wages for low- and middle-income earners is the ultimate source of the widening US income gap.
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Cliff Hanger: Obama’s Last Stand and the Republican Strategy of Fanaticism
Robert Reich: I recommend going over the cliff; it would put public pressure squarely on rank-and-file Republicans, where it belongs.
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CEOs Ring in New Year With Early Pay-Day Windfall to Beat Expiration of Bush Tax Cuts
In anticipation of higher taxes on dividends, a number of corporations are paying out dividends early - even when they have to borrow to do so.
Economic Update: People, Power and False Economics
Updates and discussion of pensions and guns, fiscal cliff, charitable tax deductions, Mondragon, the environment, and prison economics.
No Santa Claus and Bill Clinton Was Not an Economic Savior
Just as little kids have to come to grips with the fact that there is no Santa Claus, millions of liberals,must realize that President Clintonu2019s policies sent the …
Too Big to Prosecute and It’s Obama’s Fiscal Cliff
Bill Black: Criminal money laundering goes unpunished and Fiscal Cliff was created by Obama.
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It’s Our System on the Cliff
Only a coalition across party lines can get the public's business done.