A Main Street Jobs Agenda

A Main Street Jobs Agenda

Most Americans are now waking up from the Thanksgiving holiday and the bruising Washington battles of a failed congressional “supercommittee” with a giant hangover. The hangover results from the lack of clear answers to the most important question facing...
Big Banks are Doing Just Fine, Thank You

Big Banks are Doing Just Fine, Thank You

Wall Street Bankers, In the pink; Forcing Main Street To the brink. When grouchy columnists write of the pernicious effects of banks on the economy, we’re generally not referring to your local county bank whose vice-president coaches your son’s Little...
Not All Taxes Have to Hurt

Not All Taxes Have to Hurt

Taxes needn’t Be a strain; If rich folks help us Share the pain. Taxes are deeply emotional and make for hot political theater. Whenever the T-word is blurted out, our anxiety zooms. That’s the whole idea. Millionaires, who rightfully are the target for...
Emerging Economies Join G20 Coalition to Tax Speculation

Emerging Economies Join G20 Coalition to Tax Speculation

Talk about piling on. Bill Gates, the Pope, Michael Moore, the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1,000 parliamentarians, 1,000 economists, the world’s major labor leaders, Occupy Wall Street protesters, Oxfam and other major development groups, thousands of nurses, the...