THINK PROGRESS
The Progress Report
by Faiz Shakir, Benjamin Armbruster, George Zornick, Zaid Jilani, Alex Seitz-Wald, Pat Garofalo and Tanya Somanader
ECONOMY
The Assault On Wall Street Reform
Last weekend, a spokesman for the American Bankers Association — the banking … Read more »
by Robert Kuttner – Huffington Post.
To read the papers and watch TV news during the past week, you would think that the most dire problem afflicting Americans was the federal deficit in 2020 or 2030.
But for most people, … Read more »
By FRANK RICH – New York Times.
IN the aftermath of the Great Democratic Shellacking of 2010, one election night subplot quickly receded into the footnotes: the drubbing received by very wealthy Americans, most of them Republican, who tried to … Read more »
By Gail Collins – The New York Times.
I have faith in Barack Obama. Of course, I also have faith in the New York Mets.
I believe Obama is going to get his groove back and be the leader we … Read more »
Joseph C. Wilson – Huffington Post.
Having read that people began lining up in front of bookstores before former President Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, was due to be released, I hurried off to purchase mine early on November 9, arriving … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN — The New York Times.
Democrats, declared Evan Bayh in an Op-Ed article on Wednesday in The Times, “overreached by focusing on health care rather than job creation during a severe recession.” Many others have been saying … Read more »
James K. Galbraith — Huffington Post.
Bruce Bartlett says it was a failure to focus. Paul Krugman says it was a failure of nerve. Nancy Pelosi says it was the economy’s failure. Barack Obama says it was his own failure … Read more »
By Richard Eskow – OurFuture.org
The President could be on the brink of making a serious mistake, one with grave implications for his political future and even graver implications for aging Americans. If he responds to this election by adopting … Read more »
By Nicholas D. Kristof – The New York Times.
In my reporting, I regularly travel to banana republics notorious for their inequality. In some of these plutocracies, the richest 1 percent of the population gobbles up 20 percent of the … Read more »
Dean Baker.
Center for Economic and Policy Research.
During the mass unemployment of the Great Depression, Keynes once quipped that if we couldn’t find any productive work that needed to be done, in order to reduce unemployment we could just … Read more »
