Rogue Nation: How Does the US Deal With China?
What do you do when the most successful nation in a trade regime routinely and systematically violates that regime?
What do you do when the most successful nation in a trade regime routinely and systematically violates that regime?
Being determined, creative and thinking outside-the-box are all ways to get ahead, especially in the face of adversity. There isn't a successful pers...
Politicians sustain their business by giving away as many tax dollars as possible to those who can best influence re-election. This backwards model now haunts states that reaped giveaways during the boom.
By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger On Feb. 1, President Barack Obama unveiled his 2011 budget proposal. While conservative pundits reacted with ...
I was on a plane with Academy award winning actor Ernest Borgnine, 93 years old, (202 movies to his credit) as he was on his way to Toronto to shoot ...
As the administration seeks to transform the President's rhetoric on jobs into the reality of effective government policy, it needs to get beyond the political and the theoretical and to get into the head's of the nation's thousands of CEOs and business owners. While all of us should appeal to these leaders' better angels, they are also entitled to policies that provide the economic and commercial certainty they need now in order to robustly re-invest in their companies and the welfare of America's workers.
Time to take back "populism" from Teabaggers and Palinites who've kidnapped it to only mean less government and taxes. Democrats need to define a phrase and philosophy that tells Independents we're on your side.
The lethal combination of Wall Street's economic domination and the Tea Party's hatred of all things government is likely to overwhelm most other progressive causes. We need our own movement.
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF). I am a Fellow with CAF. Much of the public believes that tax cuts "create jobs...
Creating or saving jobs is a requirement for commercial real estate borrowers that use the U.S. Small Business Administration's 504 program.
Our policies have helped move us from a situation where we were losing a nightmarish 750,000 jobs per month to one in which we are a lot closer to adding jobs, on net, on a regular basis.
If voters reject the Dems in November, it won't be because they legislated too far to the left, or to the right: It will be because they were outflanked by their opposition and didn't get to legislate at all.
The divisions are deep, the fear explosive, and real solutions hard to find. But still, in each community, in each school and in each workplace, a small voice here and there says, "Yes... we still can."
As their party now holds an insurmountable 41 to 59 majority in the Senate, Republican leaders yesterday presented their legislative agenda for 2010, ...
When Congress creates a jobs bill, it should include allocations to retrain coal workers for green jobs. It's important this option be explained to voters, so they understand what's in it for them, before fossil fuel interests spin the message.
UPDATE: just got factchecked, report and raw data (Courtesy of howardweaver) ...
If you think about it, we can't all work for Doctors Without Borders or the Gates Foundation. The world needs bus drivers, ballerinas, waiters, plumbers, IT specialists and people to do payroll.
There was a time in basketball when a lesser team could try to even the odds of winning by eating up the clock or stalling. When playing a better team...
With Election 2010 looming and things looking dark for Democratic representatives everywhere, how will the party recover its 2008 mojo, particularly w...
What career should one pursue in these troubled economic times? Traditional career paths offer little promise in this jobless recovery. Here are fou...
The economy isn't yet adding jobs, but as President Obama has said: to get out of a hole, the first thing you have to do is to stop digging. Our country has stopped digging.