Getting Main Street to Call the Shots

Getting Main Street to Call the Shots

Thanks to massive bailout funding from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury, Wall Street survived the financial crash it created. This year, its titans are enjoying record share prices, corporate profits, and executive bonuses. The financial assets of America’s...
Sleazy Corporate Holiday

Sleazy Corporate Holiday

My father, long dead, spent his working years in tool and die shops in Detroit, an experience from which he crafted a political, economic, and social philosophy of life. “They’re all in it together,” he would say. That was the very core of the...
A Strategy for Coping with Unemployment

A Strategy for Coping with Unemployment

The jobless rate rose to 9.2 percent in June, which means yet more Americans are waking up to the disorienting experience of having no job to report to. How are they coping? “These are hard times for a lot of people,” says Wendee Crofoot, who is unemployed...
Enough Free Trade Nonsense

Enough Free Trade Nonsense

Trade sets Wall Street’s Heart athrob; While it robs me Of my job. Does it matter that no cell phones are made in America? Or scarcely any solar panels? Or that 91 percent of Walmart’s goods come from China? Should we care that our sundry free trade...