New research from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau makes the case for greater transparency in credit reporting.
Economic Policy
Posted inEconomic Policy
Good News, Bad News on the Economy
Job-creation numbers are being revised upward, while the economic growth rate is dropping.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Pain in Spain
The Eurozone just can’t get it together, and that could toy with Obama’s growing lead in the polls.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Richie Rich Aces the SAT
Want to improve standardized test scores? Increase Americans’ incomes.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
What Will Obama Do about Income Inequality? Not Much.
Neither candidate has a plan to deal with the long-term gains of the super rich.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Voters Getting Mixed Signals from the Market
Which economic indicators matter most in a presidential election?
Posted inEconomic Policy
What the Heck Is Quantitative Easing?
A look at the history behind the Fed’s latest move
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Romney’s Bigger Lie
Lots of Republican conservatives, Paul Ryan and Bill O’Reilly among them, have taken the position that even if Mitt Romney’s rhetoric was clumsy, his point was basically right. Some Americans pay taxes; others collect benefits. But his basic claim was total baloney. When you count income taxes, payroll taxes, excise taxes, and highly regressive state […]
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#OWS Is Not the Liberal Tea Party
The progressive movement is the real counterpoint to the Tea Party, and it was made much stronger by the 99 percent’s successful attempt to change the conversation on inequality.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Two-Faced on Taxes
Republicans talk very differently about the tax policy of the past and the tax policy of the future.
