The Group of Thirty, a preeminent think tank that brings together dozens of the world’s most influential policy makers, central bankers, financiers and academics, has been the focus of two recent reports for Occupy.com’s Global Power Project. In studying this group, I compiled CVs of the G30′s current and senior members: a total of 34 individuals.
Last night I was at a fundraiser for Eloise Reyes thrown by the Mexican American Bar Association PAC. It was wonderful watching the candidate speak from her heart to a roomful of successful attorneys about preserving Social Security by raising the cap and preventing any president-- be it a Republican or a Democrat-- from imposing Chained CPI.
Boehner must feel like the little Dutch boy with his fingers in the dike, holding back the flood-- in this case, the flood of popular comprehensive immigration reform, the flood of popular passage of a bill to end workplace discrimination against the LGBT community, the flood against
I doubt most Americans could locate Latvia on a map, even if someone told them it is in Europe. And even the most geographically-astute Americans would have a one-in-three shot of pointing out which Baltic country was Latvia, which was Lithuania and which was Estonia. As for the country's longest serving Prime Minister, Valdis Dombrovskis, the only people who ever heard of him outside of the State Department only heard of him because of his big public spat with Paul Krugman-- until yesterday.
In recent days, we've been talking a lot about the push from progressives in the Senate, particularly Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to combat the never-ending conservative goal of whittling away at Social Security by actually fighting to expand it.
The GOP shutdown may indeed be dead-- at least for now-- and Obamacare is still being birthed but that GOP shutdown cost the taxpayers something like $24 billion, killed a million jobs, raised unemployment, reduced the GDP, left us without food safety inspectors or even nuclear regulatory inspectors and put our government on a very economically precarious and dan
by KenSomehow I seem to have found myself on the Nobel beat. First, there was the rush of the unexpected but wildly deserved Literature prize for Alice Munro.
On Thursday Justin Amash (R-MI) told a crowd of libertarians at the Liberty Political Action Conference that Senators John McCain (R-AZ), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) "are on the extreme fringes of American society in terms of their views on war.” Amash is correct about McCain and Graham but this week he voted to slash $40 billio
Rahm Emanuel was never a big fan of Hillary Clinton. Perhaps that's why he's been giving the thumbs up to his wealthy Wall Street supporters who want to write checks to Chris Christie's gubernatorial campaign, like hedge fund crook/billionaire Ken Griffin, one of Emanuel's top supporters.
"I can't think of a time when a party's economic doctrine has been so completely divorced from reality."-- Paul Krugman, in his NYT column today, "Phony Fear Factor"by Ken"So Republican assertions about what ails the economy are pure fantasy," Paul writes in his column, "at odds with all the evidence.
