Global Capital and the Nation State
May 21, 2013 5:42 pm-
The IRS and the Real Scandalby Robert Reich “This systematic abuse cannot be fixed with just one resignation, or two,” said David Camp,...by Robert Reich on May 19, 2013 1:00 pm -
Pyromaniacs on the Potomac: The Problem With Obama’s Second Termby Robert Reich Six months into a second term and the Obama White House is on the defensive and floundering: Benghazi,...by Robert Reich on May 18, 2013 12:45 pm -
The Triumph of Progressivism: Graduation 2013 and 1968by Robert Reich Many of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place. Some...by Robert Reich on May 17, 2013 6:00 am
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Working Mother’s Day
by Robert Reich My mother went into paid work soon after my father’s clothing store was flooded out in a hurricane, almost wiping him out. She had no choice. We needed the money. This was some two decades before a tidal wave of wives and mothers went into paid work. For the few with four-year [...]
Sexual Assaults and Nuclear Missiles: What’s the Matter With the Military?
by Robert Reich After years of repeated reports of sexual assaults — and years of promises to prevent them, and then years of studies and commissions to find the best way of doing so — a Defense Department study released Tuesday estimates that some 26,000 people in the military were sexually assaulted in the last fiscal year, up [...]
The Hollowing Out of Government
by Robert Reich The West, Texas chemical and fertilizer plant where at least 15 were killed and more than 200 injured a few weeks ago hadn’t been fully inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1985. (A partial inspection in 2011 had resulted in $5,250 in fines.) OSHA and its state partners have [...]
The Fed, Apple and Trickle-Down Economics
by Robert Reich The Fed’s policy of keeping interest rates near zero is another form of trickle-down economics. For evidence, look no further than Apple’s decision to borrow a whopping $17 billion and turn it over to its investors in the form of dividends and stock buy-backs. Apple is already sitting on $145 billion. But with interest [...]
Public Debt and Economic Growth
by Robert Reich In the election of 1952 my father voted for Dwight Eisenhower. When I asked him why he explained that “FDR’s debt” was still burdening the economy — and that I and my children and my grandchildren would be paying it down for as long as we lived. I was only six years [...]
Earth to Washington: Repeal the Sequester
by Robert Reich Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good. Most had forecast growth of at least 3 percent (on an annualized basis) in the first quarter. But we learned this morning (in the Commerce Department’s report) it grew only 2.5 percent. That’s better than the 2 percent growth last year and the slowdown at the [...]
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