| Oct 12, 2022 | Economy / BusinessToday, CEOs of big corporations are playing the tricky “Inflation Blame Game.” Publicly, they moan that the pandemic is slamming their poor corporations with factory shutdowns, supply chain delays, wage hikes, and other increased costs. But inside their boardrooms,...
| May 5, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Joe Biden has made no secret of his admiration for Franklin D. Roosevelt. The president proudly displays a portrait of FDR in the Oval Office. More significantly, he’s announced the most ambitious plan since FDR’s New Deal for enhancing the well-being of...
| Oct 1, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedWhile Americans were transfixed by Senate hearings over Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assaults, House Republicans quietly passed another enormous tax handout for the wealthiest Americans. Round one of this giveaway cost $2 trillion. Round two is even bigger —...
| Mar 14, 2018 | Economy / BusinessLanguage matters. For example, the words that corporate and government officials use to report on the health of America’s economy can either make clear to us commoners what’s going on — or hide and even lie about the reality we face. Consider the most common...
| Sep 9, 2015 | Economy / BusinessThe stock market is down. It must be some crazy thing China has done. Those Communist countries just don’t understand how capitalism works. No, wait! The market just went up. Did China fix its capital markets already? Not really. More likely it’s that our Federal...