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Bill Scher's picture

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE: Is Keeping The Rich Comfy Your Job Future?

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Sam Pizzigati's picture

Keeping the Rich Comfy: Your Job Future?

We've lost our manufacturing economy in the United States. Now we're losing our service economy. We're rapidly becoming, some observers fear, a 'servant economy.'

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Richard Eskow's picture

New York's JPMorgan Chase Lawsuit: Are the Critics Right?

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase over allegations of wholesale fraud by Bear Stearns, which JPM acquired during the 2008 financial crisis. The lawsuit's critics, including Rep. more »

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Bill Scher's picture

The Romney Close: No Lie Left Behind

Mitt Romney delivered his "closing argument" today. True to form, Romney did not make argument contrasting his conservative positions with President Obama's. more »

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Isaiah J. Poole's picture

You? Fix The Debt? You Gotta Be Kidding

Americans for Tax Fairness does a pretty devastating take-down of the group of CEOs who were at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday ringing the opening bell under the banner "Fix the Debt." Their picture makes the point: more »

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Stan Collender's picture

Beware of CEOs Bearing Budget Gifts

The mainstream media and blogosphere lit up like Christmas trees yesterday when 80 CEOs came together to call on Congress and the president to agree on a comprehensive deficit reduction plan that includes revenue increases and spending cuts. Here's David Wessel's story from The Wall Street Journal.

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Dave Johnson's picture

The Latest Lie: "Jeep Moving All Production To China" (Plus #Sensata)

The things Mitt Romney says can just astonish you. Romney shows a wondrous perfection of the ability to smile and just say whatever needs to be said at the moment to make the sale. more »

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Bill Scher's picture

Progressive Breakfast

On the menu this morning
  • MORNING MESSAGE: Europe's Agony Could Be Our Future Under Romney
  • BREAKING: GDP Ticks Up
  • Romney Spox Plays Race Card
  • Romney Recipe For Deep Inequality
  • Obama Signals More Wall St Reform In Second Term
  • Early Vote Push May Make Difference

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Richard Eskow's picture

Europe's Agony Could Become Our Future Under Mitt Romney

At last Monday's debate Mitt Romney said the United States is "heading toward Greece." That remark was filled with bitter ironies, not the least of which is the fact that the world's current economic miseries were triggered by financial speculators like Romney himself. more »

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Jeff Bryant's picture

Who Really Did "Forget Ed" In The Presidential Debates

Way back at the beginning of this summer, an eternity it seems in this exhausting presidential campaign, The College Board launched its Don’t Forget Ed campaign to "get the candidates to prioritize education this election." more »

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