“The 62 bundlers who work in that [investment] industry have raised at least $9.4 million for Obama and the DNC.
Rarely have so few imposed such damage on so many.
The Swedes and Norwegians paid a price for their current standards of living through nonviolent struggle.
First, mentioning John Boehner, Obama said he was still open to a grand compromise on Social Security and Medicare. Second, he took a gratuitous swipe at universal single-payer health care.
As the Eliot "Hollowmen" poem ends, "this is the way the world ends...
There’s simply too much truth in the headline "Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff" to smile for long-- it says a lot about how Wall Street and Washington have colluded to create the winner-take-all economy that rewards the very few at the expense of e …
"Staff Sergeant Wuterich accepted responsibility ...
On the eve President Obama’s State of the Union address—in which he plans to pretend to further advance a populist message against big money and income inequality—Obama's massive federal settlement with big Wall Street banks over their role in the mortgage cris …
Buffett: I do fault a law that allows Romney and me earning enormous sums to pay overall federal taxes at a rate that’s about half what the average person in my office pays. Warren Buffett, the billionaire calling for more taxes on the rich, said Mitt Romney’s U.S.
Today is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns. Since then, our democracy has been drowning in a tsunami of corporate special interest money.
Democracy has not initiated any private discussions.