Tag: national debt
Trump’s tax refund promises collapse under weight of Iran war and...
Republicans promoted the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” as an affordability lifeline for working Americans, but economists, retailers, and budget analysts say rising fuel costs tied to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and ongoing tariff pressures are rapidly wiping out much of the financial relief.
Ellen Brown: How to escape the federal debt trap
Raising taxes and trimming the budget can slow future growth of the debt, but they are unable to fix the underlying problem.
NYT columnist misleadingly trashes the economy, to explain why people view...
Dissecting Economic Pessimism: Analyzing Steve Rattner's Perspective on Public Sentiment
Concerns mount as ‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ pushes for immediate commission on...
House Speaker Mike Johnson's push for a debt commission sparks concerns over the future of Social Security and Medicare.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, June 28, 2018
Americans own 40% of the world's guns, the Republican tax plan has made the U.S. debt the highest since World War II, Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire, and more.
The huge tax heist
The moneyed interests who run the GOP depend on the Trump bomb to divert attention from their huge heist.
How to wipe out Puerto Rico’s debt without hurting bondholders
If our legislators and central bankers can find trillions of dollars to bail out Wall Street banks, they can find the money to help an American territory suffering the worst humanitarian crisis in its history.
Debt relief – Japanese-style – could work here
Japan has found a way to write off its national debt without creating inflation. Why can’t we do that?
It’s time Democrats change their stories about the deficit
Democrats should be talking about the type of society that we will be giving to our kids, not shaving a few dollars off the interest payments on the debt.
If I Were the American Dictator
“The overall composition of Congress is not going to change much at all after the election. So, really, the only way to reboot America is to have a smart, benevolent dictator.”
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The...
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary after AIPAC’s super PAC spends a record $30.6 million
Outside groups supplied 88 percent of the money spent on the Democratic side of a contest AdImpact ranks as the third most expensive Senate primary in US history.
Welcome to Dawn’s Barbecue: the Epstein files in a time of war
A meditation, part essay and part poem, on what the files show about power, impunity and the ease with which the harm of innocents is absorbed.