What Obama Doesn't Want You To Know, Stiglitz Slams Tax Break, Bank Exec In Trouble And More

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

14 Things Obama Doesn't Want You To Know About The Economy

How is the U.S. economy doing nearly four years into President Obama's presidency? Not so great by some measures.

Despite promises to rein in Wall Street, the Obama administration hasn't leveled any major criminal prosecutions against financial firms or executives relating to their roles in the financial crisis, too-big-to-fail banks have actually gotten bigger, income inequality has been worse under Obama than it was under George W. Bush, and most of the jobs employers have created during the recovery don't actually pay very well.

	National Debt Surpasses Critical Marker At Awkward Time
	Stiglitz: Here's What 'Weakens The Bonds That Hold A Society Together'
	SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY? At DNC, Workers Decry A Region's Hostility
	Big Bank Exec Faces International Arrest Warrant
	To Clarify, Bribery Is Not Tax Deductible

BLOG POSTS

	Norm Stamper: Five of the Drug War's Less Obvious Casualties Perhaps we can get the attention of the parties by focusing on five less obvious yet dreadful byproducts of the drug war, conditions that millions of Americans are forced to live with daily.
	Robert L. Borosage: Obama's Challenge: Answering The Voters' Question Those who do well in America should do well by America. We should crack down on the tax dodges and loopholes, the foreign tax havens and secret accounts that have billionaires paying lower taxes than the police who guard their streets, and multinational corporations evading taxes altogether.
	Mark Cuban: Facebook Handled Their IPO Exactly Right Andrews Ross Sorkin wrote a piece for the New York Times that was just ridiculous. He put the blame squarely on the back of the CFO of FB. Talk about getting it 180 degrees wrong.
	Laura Carlsen: It's Time to Abandon Nixon's War on Drugs A refusal to address the disastrous war on drugs and propose alternatives ignores public demands for change and places cowardice before the fundamental responsibility of creating viable and fair public policies.
	Jane White: Bill Clinton's True Legacy: Outsourcer-in-Chief