Category: Economy
House Finance Chair Hensarling Vacationed with Wall Street
by Justin Elliot | May 2, 2013 | Economy(Texas Republican Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, vacationed with Wall Street bankers in January, raising concerns of conflicts of interest: Fox.) In January, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, ascended to the powerful chairmanship of the House Financial Services Committee. Six weeks later, campaign finance filings and interviews show, Hensarling was joined by […]
Arthur Goldwag: the Tsarnaevs, Conspiracy Theorists and the Politicians Who Exploit Them
by Arthur Goldwag | May 1, 2013 | Economy(Alex Jones claimed the U.S. was behind the Boston bombings to strip Americans’ civil liberties.) Boylston Street was literally slick with blood when Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick held a press conference on April 15. The first question came from Dan Bidondi. “Why were the loud speakers telling people in the audience to be calm moments […]
For Bobby Jindal, April Was the Cruelest Month
by Stephanie Grace | May 1, 2013 | Economy, PoliticsIt’s become an article of faith in louisiana that Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has his eye on a bigger prize. Jindal consistently, if winkingly, denies it. But in Baton Rouge, his national ambition is part of the landscape. That’s worked out fine for the one-time Rhodes Scholar and precocious policy whiz, who landed his first […]
Mike Konczal: The Austerity of a Coding Error and Why the Reinhart-Rogoff Fiasco Matters
by Mike Konczal | Apr 26, 2013 | EconomyEditor’s Note: In April, the credibility of economic austerity, which has incited rioting in Europe, took a hit when a graduate student from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst found a coding error in a 2010 research paper published by Harvard professors Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart. Since the 2010 release of that paper, which argued that […]
Pascal Robert: Obama as Wall Street’s Manchurian Candidate
by Pascal Robert | Apr 17, 2013 | Economy, PoliticsIn 2006, Barack Obama, less than two years in Congress as a pure neophyte, was the only U.S. Senator to attend the first meeting of former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin’s meeting of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institute. In the video above, Obama talks about the new economic order. Watch Obama heap praise on […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety