Over the weekend, I saw multiple commercials for GM's Hummer on television. Yep. The failing...
Category - Economy
Pottersville
Drag these bastards into Congress now. Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top...
WTF?
Scurvy little spiders: The Associated Press contacted 21 banks that received at least $1 billion in...
Dare to Dream
My chosen guide through this living hell: Paul Krugman... Whatever the new administration does...
Okay, Grab Your Shoes
Let's go throw some shoes at the Goldman Sachs building. Somehow they're only paying a 1% tax rate.
Child Poverty Rate
We're number one! Nearly 22 percent of all children in America live below the poverty line...
Merry Christmas. You're Fired.
Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/European Pressphoto Agency Cindy Spisak with Douglas Yandura after she was...
It's A Wonderful Life
Like Oliver, I watched it for the gazillionth time last night and I don't mind saying that it...
Thom Hartmann on Countdown
Make The Republicans Talk
Josh again: What I do think makes sense is for the majority to actually require the minority to...
Repping Who?
by Lee Stranahan So the lame duck GOP Senate scuttled the auto bailout deal because it wouldn't...
GOP Hates Unions More Than Depression
Josh Marshall: The automaker bailout is now, apparently, officially and really dead. Dems were...
Screwed
The Republicans may have just screwed us all. Senate Republicans last night blocked a deal to bail...
Nothing To Fear
by Lee Stranahan As grim as the economists seem to be and as serious as I think the economic...
A Very Strange Time In Our Lives
Ambinder reporting: It's quite unsettling to talk to members of Barack Obama's transition teams...
Krugman Clarifies
You might've seen the screamer headlines around the interweb suggesting that Krugman said the...
Protesting with Gusto
We're all wimps compared to this.
Mortgage Rates
On a personal level, I'm not opposed to dropping the home mortgage interest rate to 4.5 percent. I...
Here's Something Real to Fear
Paul Krugman is scared. I’ve been ruminating over economic prospects for next year, and I’m getting...
The Dumb Stupids Award
Goes to the several Republican governors who apparently argued with the president-elect in a...