If Lesley Stahl chose to leave the Peterson Board and disassociate herself with that group's agenda, she made the right decision. But opting for secrecy was the wrong choice.
Media touted the event without looking deeper. Clips the day after did the same. Nary a mention of Pete Peterson or his vicious austerity agenda which will slash government spending, kill jobs, condemn students to higher rates of debt and make it much harder for graduates to succeed.
Words are contested terrain in political debate. The words we use to label issues and ideas shape how people think about them.
WASHINGTON -- The multi-million dollar lobbying campaign to fix the national debt opened a new front this week, when a group of retired foreign policy...
The reality is that the current system of taxation created by Ronald Reagan and put on steroids by George W. Bush is working quite well for Pete Peterson and his fellow oligarchs.
You may or may not have heard of Peter G. Peterson, but he has been trying very hard lately to make you believe your Social Security is in jeopardy.
WASHINGTON -- Peter Peterson, a Wall Street billionaire who has been calling for cuts to Social Security and other government programs for years, is h...
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Tuesday that the recent $2 billion trading loss by JPMorgan "helps make the case" for tougher rules...
Austerity is a false cure for a prolonged recession. The Peterson Foundation is using a genuine crisis as an excuse to bash social insurance, at a time when we should be expanding social insurance. It's appalling that so many people are gulled by this propaganda.
During Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate, the candidates will likely spar over the best way to cut the nation’s budget deficit, an is...
This story was updated to include a statement from Clinton's spokesman. Former president Bill Clinton expressed optimism Wednesday about the immedi...
The Obama Administration's Deficit Commission is at best errant in its mission and at worst a bait-and-switch ploy being run on the American people.
The more immediate problem facing the economy is the high unemployment rate, the risk of a largely jobless recovery, and a lost generation of prosperity.
Spending on job creation is not inconsistent with deficit reduction -- in fact, high deficits will be with us as long as high unemployment is. Many of our leaders still do not understand this.
resident Barack Obama is in a difficult position when it comes to deficits. Today's high deficits will have to go even higher to help address unemploy...
As unemployment continues to rise, deficit hawks are upping their efforts to use the economic crisis as a pretext for gutting basic social programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
Jason Linkins got some things wrong about the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, and we feel compelled to clear the air.
Just how much is $1.2 trillion? To put this year's deficit in perspective, we thought of a few unrealities that carry a similar price tag.
