The battle for America's entire communications future is playing out this week in two small towns in New Jersey.
Marvin Meadors | Posted 05.21.2012
Why place our bets on Romney when his election may open the door to a return of the days of excessive risk taking and taxpayer funded bailouts? Why spin the wheel again arguing that this time Wall Street will bet correctly?
AP | By MARK S. SMITH | Posted 05.06.2012
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden says the latest job numbers show an economy still struggling to recover, but not one where hiring suddenly has ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.27.2012
WASHINGTON -- Facing political pressure from Republicans and farming groups, the White House has decided to scrap rules proposed last year that would ...
William K. Black | Posted 05.20.2012
The "Jumpstart Our Business Startups" Act, the comically forced effort to create a catchy acronym, is the most cynical bill to emerge from a cynical Congress and administration. It is an exemplar of why congressional approval ratings are well below those of used car dealers. The JOBS Act is something only a financial scavenger could love. It will create a fraud-friendly and fraud-enhancing environment. It will add to the unprecedented level of financial fraud by our most elite CEOs that has devastated the U.S. and European economies and cost over 20 million people their jobs. Financial fraud is a prime jobs killer.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.02.2012
Wall Street seems to have learned a neat trick: how to make more money while producing less. Between 1980 and 2010, the U.S. financial industry nea...
Sidney Shapiro | Posted 04.29.2012
It may be, as cynics are likely to point out, that you can't underestimate the power of the American people to hold two contradictory ideas at once.
Rena Steinzor | Posted 04.22.2012
The fundamental challenge for The Economist is squaring its anti-regulatory critique with its admission that “most” of today’s regulations have monetized benefits exceeding costs. The magazine likes that, after all. So where’s the problem?
Paul Abrams | Posted 04.03.2012
To drill-baby-drill down on the actual data, the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows, U.S. employment in the oil and gas industry has reached record highs despite regulations.
Eli Lehrer | Posted 04.03.2012
Republicans need to look for more creative ways to fight burdensome government regulations. They can -- and should -- start by looking at credit union lending.
Robert Scheer | Posted 04.02.2012
Larry Summers, like Bill Clinton, still defends the reversal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, a 1999 repeal that destroyed the wall between investment and commercial banking put into place by Franklin Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression.
Carl Gibson | Posted 04.01.2012
For two men who campaigned on getting government out of the lives of private citizens, it's incredibly hypocritical to oppose a woman's right to do what she wants to with her own uterus.
Carl Gibson | Posted 03.11.2012
Ron Paul's every-individual-for-themselves rhetoric appeals to young, radical libertarians with simplistic viewpoints of authority, and an ignorance of why government exists in the first place.
Mark W. Schleisner | Posted 02.14.2012
The congressional advocates of deregulation insist that a market unfettered by government supervision creates jobs and prosperity. They're right -- i...
Rep. John Conyers | Posted 01.23.2012
The solution to the recession is fairly straightforward. We must increase demand for American goods, create jobs and resolve the home foreclosure crisis. If we continue this regulatory race to the bottom, American manufacturers will be less competitive and fewer -- not more -- jobs will be created.
Edward Flattau | Posted 01.22.2012
Republican congressional leaders persist in the belief that advancing economic expansion at the expense of environmental protection is a winning strategy. They never learn.
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.20.2011
Unemployment might be stuck at crisis levels, but a new government report suggests two commonly proposed Republican remedies would only have minimal e...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.17.2011
The country needs jobs, but cutting back on government regulations may not the best way to get them. Deregulation -- a favorite talking point of c...
Cliff Schecter | Posted 01.09.2012
Although when it comes to the specific date of our mass death, Harold Camping might as well be talking Chinese nuclear development with Herman Cain, i...
E. Henry Schoenberger | Posted 01.04.2012
Think about it. We have young adults sleeping outside in Manhattan, protesting against Wall Street Banks -- the symbol of economic inequality; and a ...
Sunil Sharan | Posted 01.03.2012
Deregulation, which is, in effect, competition, would move the onus from strapped taxpayers onto cash-rich utilities, assuming there is proper oversight.
Wenonah Hauter | Posted 12.20.2011
Now is a critical time to start asking questions about what the consequences would be -- intended or otherwise -- if subsidies go away.
Robert Scheer | Posted 12.19.2011
Funny, he doesn't look like Marie Antoinette. But when former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller asks his readers if they are "bored by the soggy sleep-ins and warmed-over anarchism of Occupy Wall Street," it displays the arrogance of disoriented royal privilege.
Rep. Keith Ellison | Posted 12.15.2011
Last week, I was on MSNBC's Up With Chris Hayes about jobs, the Occupy Wall Street movement and other issues. During the show I said that some regulations have created jobs.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.09.2011
WASHINGTON -- America's environmental protections are under a sweeping, concerted assault in Congress that could effectively roll back the federal gov...
Bruce Kushnick | Posted 05.24.2012