America must now lead and ask the world to agree on a modern Marshall Plan that coordinates trade and macroeconomic policies to boost global growth.
It's time to cut the corn, Congress, and come clean, for the sake of your own constituents, and our economy.
Today, a cross-section of distinguished Latino leaders from across the political spectrum, as well as in business, government, public service, enterta...
Will lower taxes on the rich spur them to create more jobs? Not a chance. Since 1980, Reagan's supply-siders have said lower taxes on the rich will trickle down to everyone else. Nothing could be further from the truth.
"Straight Talk" features thinking from notable minds that the ChrisMartenson.com audience has indicated it wants to learn more about. ...
That the tax-cut deal may well be the best Obama could have gotten is a cruel joke. What's wrong with our politics that so much hardship evokes so little response?
Bill Clinton's brief appearance last week excited both members of the media and Washington, but the question now is whether Clinton's presence can help Obama turn things around.
In a world gone wrong, at least we can count on Paul Krugman. The Nobel Laureate eviscerates the convoluted logic behind the proposed economic policy fiasco dressed up as a stimulus plan.
Wall Street is back. Bonuses on the Street are expected to rise about 5 percent this year. But nothing is trickling down. Job growth is still anemic and the median wage is barely rising, adjusted for inflation.
Since the shocking news that a giant private equity firm had seized control of Santa's Workshop media organizations worldwide have been clamoring to land an interview with Father Christmas.
A new Twitter hashtag, #positiveireland, has surfaced, attracting a digital stream of good Irish economic news to counter the prevailing doom, gloom and ire of traditional media.
What's the hardest part to grasp in the above headline? Good news about American manufacturing has been awfully scarce on the ground these past fe...
Yesterday I wrote that the President may have sacrificed his long-term vision on trade and economic/industrial policy to day-to-day concerns and polit...
No responsible parent would willingly choose passing down substantial sums of debt to their children over making sacrifices. If we don't deal with this problem now, that is exactly the outcome we can expect
The current debate on the compromise over the Bush tax cuts is progressing true to the normal Washington playbook and needs to be challenged by the real facts as we best know them.
As the wealthy bankers are propped up and subsidized by the government, everyday working people who have little as it is are robbed daily -- by their employers. Now is a better time than most to discuss the crisis of wage theft in the United States.
Even attempts to evoke our ire at this train-wreck of a policy like "billionaire bailout" or "millionaire bonus" still don't profile the new round of damage we're about to inflict on ourselves.
Widespread claims that Social Security can't pay its bills, or that the trust fund will be depleted by the time today's children are ready to collect their benefits, are false. To the contrary, it's one of the most successful social programs of all time.
Obama will enter the next and much more consequential stage of the current political battle in better shape than his conservative adversaries, and the American people enter 2011 also better off than they would have been otherwise.
Fess up. We've all done it at some point in our lives. In a bind or with intent, we've regifted in a moment of desperation or after hours of delib...