E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigJul 9, 2015
The notion that Democrats, including President Obama, could ever agree to what the Republicans are proposing is, well, absurd. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigJan 2, 2013
By casting their ballots in favor of a deal that would avert the so-called fiscal cliff early Tuesday morning, senators overwhelmingly blocked a pay increase for themselves and members of the House that President Obama recently approved via an executive order. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Tracy Bloom / TruthdigDec 31, 2012
Looking for a job where being unproductive and ineffective won't hurt your chances of getting a raise? Try being a member of Congress! Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 23, 2012
Gerard Depardieu’s blustery renunciation of his French citizenship for the purpose of avoiding a tax increase imposed to combat the fiscal crisis has exposed a bitter division in the French populace that includes some of its most famous citizens. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 16, 2012
“We all misjudged the risks involved,” former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in March 2010 of the housing bubble that led to the financial crisis. He forgot about economist Dean Baker. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 8, 2012
No, says the Nobel Prize-winning economist, who must be hoarse from repeating the same thing for the last four years: The United States is facing a jobs crisis, one that costs the savings, homes and dreams of millions of Americans and about $900 billion a year in lost productivity. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 17, 2012
On the eve of a eurozone summit that will consider a unified continental budget, French President Francois Hollande said that his half of the Paris-Berlin crisis team will insist on an easing of German leader Angela Merkel's hard push for "austerity and the surrender of national powers to tighten fiscal discipline,” The Guardian reports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Peter Bratsis, TruthoutMar 4, 2012
The most central and constant dilemma in modern politics—whether the will of the people or that of bureaucrats and specialists should rule--is on full display in Greece. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
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