Reform Is Essential
Health care reform is essential not only because our current health care system is broken as far as the health of the American people (we rank below every other western country in health care outcomes and we rank 50th in life expectancy) but because our current system will eventually bankrupt our entire […]

Consider this: President Obama plans on signing into the law the largest middle class tax cut in US history. He also wants to raise taxes on the richest 5% of Americans (those making more than a quarter million dollars a year) to the rate they were at in the 1990s under President Clinton (and if […]

I wish I could say that we are now at a “bottom” but I don’t think we can say that with any real confidence. There’s a chance the stock market will continue to go down for quite some time.
And I wouldn’t trust the folks at CNBC either.
The fact is, the economy will probably keep getting […]

This post on the Huffington Post has me thinking about the current economic crisis and how dangerous it is on many levels (including politically.)
It’s important to remember that this economonic down turn has absolutely nothing to do with our current President and everything to do with the inept Bush administration. It’s so important because we […]

Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize for economics this week. Krugman is a professor at Princeton and a columnist for The New York Times. But most importantly with the Presidential election coming up in just three weeks (on November 4) and the United States in it’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression; Nobel Prize […]