economy Archive
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Today, 33 national organizations and 163 state and local organizations send a letter to six U.S. Senators on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee urging them to keep working on the Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act …
I guess I get to say I told you so. After reading hundreds of thousands of words about economic inequality written by the world’s greatest minds, I sense consensus is moving towards what this social worker had figured out five …
Photo of “Warengestell mit Gehirnen (Display Stand with Brains),” By Katharina Fritsch. The Great Recession, like financial disasters before it, took its toll on bodies and psyches as much as it did on bank accounts and lifestyles. Suicides, family violence, …
Neoteny refers to when a species’ traits that are typically associated with juvenile stages of development are carried into adulthood. A common example is the Mexican salamander, or axolotl. At full maturity, the axolotl continues to look like a …
With great fanfare, President Obama personally unveiled the Volcker Rule this week. It’s not often that a President will take center stage for the passage of a departmental regulation but the Volcker Rule is a centerpiece to his Administration’s efforts …
Consumers finally caught a break this week when the Republican leadership in the Senate relented and permitted a vote on Richard Cordray’s nomination as the director of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB). Twelve Republicans joined the Democratic majority for a 66-34 vote …
Would you believe that in this rather tough economic climate, I have now personally heard from no less than three people in the last two days who have quit their jobs? I might add that in all three situations, these …
Financial and economic problems continue to plague America making it easy to forget that Europe is also in a financial free fall. Unemployment in the Eurozone has hit a record high of 12.2%,a total of 26.5 million people.
Thought we were over the equal marriage topic now that we need to wait until June to see what the supreme court decided? NOPE! Think Progress has an interesting article which they recently published on how getting rid of the Defense …
