iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Blog Entries by Robert Kuttner from 03/2011

Winning the Present

| Posted 03.06.2011 | Politics
Read More: Education, Budget Cuts, Spending, Economic Crisis, Clean Water Act, Downturn, Food Safety, Jeb Bush, Miami, Big Government, Barack Obama, House Republicans, Pell Grants, Fiscal Policy, Republicans, Headstart, Meet the Press, Bill Daley, Hsbc, Hamp, Unemployment, Banks, Partisanship, Politics News

How lunatic-fringe do the House Republicans have to be before President Obama starts calling them out? These cuts have nothing to do with reasonable fiscal policy -- they are pure ideological retribution against government.

Read Whole Story

The Continuing Mortgage Mess

| Posted 03.13.2011 | Business
Read More: Foreclosures, Elizabeth Warren, Foreclosure Investigation, Foreclosure Crisis, Illegal-Foreclosures, State Attorneys General, Business News, Foreclosure, Homeowners, Foreclosure Fraud, Business News

After the drubbing that the Democrats took last November, you would think that it might occur to the White House that it makes sense to be more clearly aligned with the interests of consumers. But that is still contested terrain.

Read Whole Story

Brown Shoots

| Posted 03.20.2011 | Business
Read More: Japan Tsunami Economy, Swing States, Unemployment, Japan Tsunami, Commodity Prices, Inflation, Economy, Economic Crisis, Supply Chain, Globalization, Federal Reserve, Food Prices, Election 2012, Recession, Obama 2012, Business News

As spring dawns, the economy's green shoots have been trampled once again, first by the economic fallout from Japan's tsunami, and again by rising worldwide commodity prices.

Read Whole Story

An American Industrial Renaissance?

| Posted 03.27.2011 | Business
Read More: Outsourcing, Suppliers, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Markets, Japan Economy, General Electric, Apple, Japan Tsunami, Industry, Electronics, Labor Standards, Business News

In the sorting out of the wreckage after Japan's earthquake and tsunami, many Americans have begun paying more attention to a phrase they had barely known -- "supply chains."

Read Whole Story