…directly check market power and hold industry accountable. On jobs, the president boasted that nearly “100 percent” of new jobs have been created in the private sector. And the label on the…

…writer does not come with a label indicating their immigration status at birth. When we deny education, we are not protecting America. We are diminishing it. The challenge to Plyler is particularly…

…a slide projector and screen and (c) a way to label and store all the images. Online music streaming: NO. I grew up with vinyl and tapes (reel-to-reel, cassettes and…

…of those clever natural experiments so beloved of economists these days. … Where’s freakonomics when you need it? from the Wiki on “selective service” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_service President Kennedy set up Executive…

…the class war. In fact, there was a movie in 1954 with William Holden looking at this issue called Executive Suite. …McDonald Walling, who oversees the company’s manufacturing plant and…

…bad. The result is tax deferment for Paulson and other executives of his hedge fund along with re-characterization of ordinary compensation income as preferentially taxed capital gains. For a discussion…

…to an Obama administration that has made a mockery of the name of a once hallowed executive department. The Frontline report is titled “The Untouchables,”… … As this excerpt from…

Two days ago, Dan posted an entry by run75441 titled “SCOTUS Chastises Congress and the Executive Branch.” The post’s title wasn’t quite accurate; run’s post was about Chief Justice John…

…Systematic document forgery and fabrication at Naked Capitalism: The Department of Justice and the state of Missouri have each announced criminal plea bargains with one Lorraine Brown, former chief executive…

…for Goldman Sachs. The Justice Department closed a criminal investigation of the firm and its chief executive, Lloyd C. Blankfein, and the firm disclosed that the Securities and Exchange Commission…