Our current political situation is unprecedented. The vast majority of Americans keep falling behind economically because of changes in society’s ground rules, while the rich get even richer — yet this situation doesn’t translate into a winning politics. If anything, the right keeps gaining and the wealthy keep pulling away. How can…
Revealed: Rising Inequality Kills American Jobs Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari, researchers on consumer behavior and how it effects the economy, wrote an op-ed for the St. Louis Post Dispatch in October 2007 in which they predicted that an end to the relentless trend of rising household debt and a subsequent crash in…
The value of the arts to the economy has always been an elusive figure – until now. For the first time, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, part of the Commerce Department, has quantified art’s impact, finding in a study released Thursday that 3.2 percent – or $504 billion – of the…
FROM Seattle to Sydney, protesters have taken to the streets. Whether they are inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York or by the indignados in Madrid, they burn with dissatisfaction about the state of the economy, about the unfair way that the poor are paying for the sins of rich bankers,…
It’s Still the Economy, Stupid Fourteen million Americans remain out of work, a waste of our greatest resource. The 42nd president has more than a dozen ideas on how to attack the jobs crisis. Andrew Hetherington for Newsweek Bill Clinton 14 WAYS TO PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK Next week in Chicago, the Clinton Global…
The Taliban leadership council again demanded that Western forces withdraw from Afghanistan and insisted it would reestablish the Islamic Emirates Before any peace or reconciliation with the Taliban can occur,the following must happen: 1.) elimination of Mullah Omar and other irreconcilable and ideological i.e. Al- qaeda-compromised Taliban leadership 2.) replacement of the Karzai regime with…