The Obama Presidency, Looking Back
It’s been a quarter of a year now, a little more, since the end of the Obama Presidency. The contrast, and the events that...
The Trump Republican Tax Cut for the Super-Rich
by Joseph O'ShaughnessyLet’s establish one thing right away. The new tax bill proposed by President Trump and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is a tax cut...
Why You Need to Rage Against the Horrible Republican Health Care...
The Republicans have been working on an attempt to introduce new legislation on the health care act that will satisfy both the Republicans in...
Warning: Health Care Disaster Looming
Here's the problem and I'm going right at it because we don't have much time.Congress is about to change the rules on health care....
How Republicans Tried to Kill Obamacare and Give Us the Cheap...
We have been mislead by Republicans about Obamacare. If health care is about the American people, then Obamacare is good and workable and economically sound. If health care is about making health insurance companies profitable, and not caring for the American people, then the Republican plan is better...but only for the health insurance industry.
There You Go Again, Donald…
The hits to the American people just keep coming. Trump's cabinet is a who's who of the richest, Rightist, wrongist group of characters ever...
Down Trump’s Golden Brick Road
We must examine the Trump infrastructure plan.At first, it sounds, well, pretty good. And then you get the details.First, why do you think Trump...
Trump: A Fantasy of Being President
Donald Trump recently laid out his economic policies in a speech in Detroit, Michigan. It is no surprise he did it there. Detroit is...
Inequality and Poverty
Government is failing Americans. A nation accustomed to creating new industries, technologies and good jobs within those industries can no longer expect vision from...
Zionism, Israel, Palestine and Peace
The word “Zionism” is often thrown around by people who know very little, or nothing, about it. Zionism was an organized reaction to centuries...
How Liberal Reagan Became Conservative Reagan
Why would anyone choose Ronald Reagan as the best President of the United States of those who have served in that capacity since 1945?First...
The Case For Liberal Economics
We have serious economic problems.As a country, we need to move ahead. China is buying up the world’s resources. Soon Russia will do the...
The Land of Opportunity–for the Koch Brothers.
In the south Bronx, the unemployment rate is 19%. In Detroit and other metro areas it can be even higher than that. The opportunity...
Inflation Versus Inaction
We now get a lot of activity from the theorists who say inflation is right around the corner. Every little up-tick in the interest...
Failure of Conservative Economics, Part III The Big Economic...
No discussion of Conservative economics will be complete without a full analysis and review of the theories of Fredrich Hayek. Hayek was an Austrian...