Let’s be clear on something, I don’t like Mitch McConnell. I think he is a despicable human being. There is nobody in our American government more self-interested and more unprincipled than this low-life Kentucky politician, and I’ll defend that charge … Continued
President Obama inherited an economy that had been devastated by the financial crisis. This did not happen on his watch. The last two months before George Bush left office the economy lost 750,000 jobs in each of those months. And … Continued
No doubt Mitch McConnell is going to be dreaming some pretty grandiose dreams concerning sprucing up his legacy now that he’s the new Majority leader in the Senate. His biggest challenge though is going to be riding herd on all … Continued
To get the country going and growing again average working people (and this is anyone who depends on their weekly pay check to get by) need to get a bigger piece of the pie. That is they should make more … Continued
Through the decade of the 1920’s there was roughly the same level of income inequality that we have today. Then during the Great Depression (what economist like to call the Great Compression) the value of financial assets (stocks and bonds) … Continued