More Pain For You And Me: The Economy's About To Stumble

Andrew Reinbach, 11.23.2009

Journalist

Since the likelihood of more federal stimulus packages is low -- unless they're called something like a "jobs bill" -- this will mean more pain and an even slower economy.

Why is Obama Championing Bush's Financial Wrecking Crew?

William K. Black, 11.23.2009

Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City; Sr. regulator during S&L debacle

Obama promoted the architects of the financial disaster and demands that we hail them as heroes because they, and Wall Street, only wrecked the economy -- they haven't (yet) utterly destroyed it.

2010 Could Wreak Havoc Again

Dan Dorfman, 11.22.2009

Financial Columnist, Market Commentator.

With less than seven weeks to go before we're in 2010, you'll soon be bombarded with Wall Street's annual new year's forecasts. You can be sure the predictions from the brokerage community will be decidedly rosy.

Economists: Wrong Again

Michael J. Panzner, 11.22.2009

Author of When Giants Fall and Financial Armageddon

Many economists are advocating aggressive spend-and-borrow policies to revive the financial crisis-hit U.S. economy that reflect an astonishing degree of naïveté and ivory tower hubris.

Integrating the Best Ideas from Left and Right

Linda Buzzell, 11.21.2009

Psychotherapist, co-editor "Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind"

As a psychotherapist I've done my share of counseling squabbling couples and have learned to looking for common ground. Lately I've begun to apply this method to politics, with some fascinating results.

Teabaggers and Boomers Don't Matter

Mike Papantonio, 11.20.2009

Senior partner of Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner & Proctor

The next time you see a picture of a tea party protest, look closely and try to identify anyone in that crowd under the age of 30. If you identify as...

Better Start Learning Chinese

Shawn Amos, 11.20.2009

Pop Culture Pundit and Host of 'Retro Minute'

I was watching Obama speak to those Shanghai students during his big Asia trip, and suddenly I remembered my '80s high school Spanish class. My teache...

Congress Rocks

Jim Jaffe, 11.19.2009

Washington observer

Congress is moving at a pace that can fairly be characterized as astonishingly fast to slash the number of Americans who lack health insurance by more than half.

Afghanistan: No Good Alternatives

Ryan McDermott, 11.19.2009

Veteran, Investment Banker

It might have seemed unfathomable back in 2001 to think that this war would have gone on so long, but here we are eight years in and no end in sight.

Navigating the Jobs Crisis: Clean Energy and Good Jobs Go Hand in Hand

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, 11.19.2009

CEO, Green For All

We must measure our true economic progress by a different metric: the number of career-track, green jobs that we create for those Americans who need them most.

Obama's Home And The Report Is Out: China Takes Us to School

Eric Lotke, 11.19.2009

Research Director at the Campaign for America's Future and author of 2044

While Obama posed for photos on the Great Wall and talked about a relationship "at an all-time high," China continues to take our lunch money.

The Problem With a Jobs Bill -- And With Everything Else

Dave Johnson, 11.20.2009

"Dave Johnson is a fantastic grandfather of the blogosphere."

As long as our economy is structured to pass everything up to a few at the top, stimuli can't work well, and jobs bills can't work well, either. Neither can anything else.

Elizabeth Warren: Hard Truths About the Economy

Joel B. Schwartzberg, 11.18.2009

From the newsmagazine "NOW on PBS"

Last weekend, NOW on PBS aired an insightful, hard-hitting interview with Elizabeth Warren that moved much of our audience to write in with their opin...

In A Canyon, In A Cavern

Lita Smith-Mines, 11.20.2009

Attorney and Editor in Chief, Boating Times Long Island

I wanted to enjoy my fleeting feelings of karmic payback, knowing how many toxic loans were closed in these cavernous offices. Instead, I pondered: how many jobs in our altered real estate landscape were lost and gone forever?

KS-Gov: Businessman Tom Wiggans will challenge Brownback

Mike Nellis, 11.17.2009

Online Director for the Kansas Democratic Party

Kansas Democrats are on their way to presenting the strongest slate of candidates in years with respected businessman Tom Wiggans' announcement that h...

What Ails Black Women, Part 1: Work and Wages

Philip N. Cohen, 11.17.2009

Sociologist at UNC-Chapel Hill.

For the first time in a long time, White women are more likely to have jobs than Black women. Why are Black women falling further behind?

US-China Relations: Getting Beyond Political Rhetoric

Damien Hoffman, 11.17.2009

Editor-in-Chief, Wall St. Cheat Sheet

The cold hard truth for U.S. citizens is we must work to create a sustainable economy. We must set our sights on explosive industries such as alternative energy and health technology.

Weekly Audit: Saying 'No' to Corporate America

The Media Consortium, 11.17.2009

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger By proposing financial reforms that won't curb Wall Street excess, U.S. policymakers have offered an unaccep...

Memo to Warren Buffett: Put Down the Pom-Poms and Tell Us the Truth About the Economy

Arianna Huffington, 11.18.2009

Difficult times need wise men to tell difficult truths. And, for many years, Buffett has done just that. So it was deeply distressing to listen to him last week joining in the economic victory lap the Obama administration is taking.

Innovation in the 21st Century: Keeping the US Competitive

Justin R. Rattner, 11.16.2009

Vice president and chief technology officer, Intel Corporation

Despite one of the deepest recessions in history, Americans have an undiminished faith in technology and innovation as the primary engines of economic growth.

From Wall Street to Neverland: The Year America Didn't Sleep

Qanta Ahmed, MD, 11.16.2009

Board Certified Physician, Internationally Published Author, "In the Land of Invisible Women".

The public health burden of insomnia on the US is measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars. While we routinely cut calories, or cram in exercise, sleep has not even entered the conversational lexicon.