Working Life

   Well, let’s see where this goes: A top Senate Democrat said Monday he was optimistic lawmakers would move forward with legislation overhauling financial markets this week, as the Obama administration and congressional Democrats sought to build support for the measure ahead of a Senate vote. Sen. Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.), who chairs the Senate […]

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Though we’ve been involved now for over a year, we’ve gotten more serious in recent months.While we’ve always had our ups and downs, I’ve become worried that our relationship is overall unhealthy, imbalanced, and that I’ve become addicted to you. Let me explain. 1. My relationship with you has hurt my relationship with others. Friends […]

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   I’ve always like the Right to Rent idea, proposed by Dean Baker at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, because it would help homeowners–not banks–who are facing the foreclosure crisis. Now, there is a bill to make it law:  "The Right to Rent Act of 2010" was introduced by Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva […]

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   Tax Day is approaching. I did a little exercise, thanks to National Priorities Project, about what we could do with the money spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It’s worth thinking about since there is more money about to be wasted on the Afghanistan quagmire.    I chose New York. According to the […]

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   A month ago, I called for the indictment of Lehman Brothers executives–as well as an investigation of the role played by then-NY Federal Reserve head Tim Geithner–for the "materially misleading" actions (that is accounting-speak for scams) that those execs undertook to cover up their financial misdeeds that sent Lehman over the edge–and helped drag […]

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   By now, you may have read this: Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern, one of America’s most prominent labor leaders, is set to resign, according to a member of the union’s board and another SEIU official. The President of an SEIU local based in Seattle, Diane Sosne, broke the news to her staffers […]

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   There is a whole lot of whining coming from the corporate sector about the great "burden" entailed in the health care bill just passed. Citizens for Tax Justice digs into the topic: A new analysis from CTJ shows that many of the companies protesting a tax-loophole-closing reform enacted in the new health care reform […]

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   Yesterday, Robert Rubin testified before the commission investigating the financial crisis: But Robert E. Rubin, the former Treasury secretary, faced withering questions from the panel, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, for his spare expressions of remorse. Repeatedly playing down his role as chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup’s board, he was met with […]

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   Ummm…There are reasons to walk out, and, then, there are reasons to walk out: Scores of Carlsberg A/S workers walked off their jobs Thursday to protest the Danish brewer’s new limits on beer drinking at work. Carlsberg spokesman Jens Bekke said 250 warehouse and production workers and truck drivers went on strike Thursday on […]

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