The Economics of Robert Reich.
Many short men are taller than Robert Reich. But as they said about Ari Onassis (who wasn’t that short, Ms. Onassis was just a...
The Greatest Robbery in the History of the World
In 2008, the top income earners in this country and major corporations and the Republican Party and Wall Street completed the greatest theft of...
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...
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...
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part V – The Bush-Cheney Depression
The United States has been in decline since 1981.
That was when Ronald Reagan’s charismatic personality took over the country. Reagan was the all-time,...
Forward…to the New Clinton Era
It is time to push and push hard for Democratic reforms of government. We can return to an era when jobs were prolific and...
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VII — Solutions
So what are the solutions to our economic problems?
They’d better be good. The Bush Administration left us with an enormous mess.
In...
Hedge Fund Managers Are Coming for Your State Pension Funds.
One of the most serious and largest scams now being perpetrated by the Republican Party on the American public is the “unfunded liability” state...
The Republican Recession and a Budget for Billionaires
How do we explain the tragic situation in which we now find the country? The simple way to explain it is to say that,...
The Son-in-law Senator from Wisconsin
The nice thing about “stupid” is that you don’t have to make anything up or manipulate anything or try to exaggerate anything…stupid is as...
Lies My Republican Candidates Told Me.
The Republican candidates are out on the Old Washington Trail. It leads from Iowa to New Hampshire to the Carolinas, with stops in Nevada...
A Tariff Policy to Create Jobs
We need exports and imports. We need jobs. And we need more jobs than can be provided by exports. In other words,at a very...
Democrats in 2014
If you talk to leading progressives these days, you'll be sure to hear this message: The Democratic Party should embrace the economic populism of...
Romney, Taxes, Deficits and Disaster
Mitt Romney wants to be President. In order to become President, he must persuade the American people that he has a better plan for...
Republicans and “Tea Party” Billionaires Attack Social Security
One of the attacks on the Middle Class being undertaken skillfully by the Koch Brothers and the Phil Anschutzes and the Rush Limbaughs and...