Working Life

    If I was Susan Collins, I’d be a bit miffed at my sister Republican Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe. Collins is up for re-election and, though the polling in the state is not showing her in grave danger in her race against Democrat Rep. Tom Allen, that race will become competitive–and Snowe may have […]

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   Virtually every time a so-called "free trade" agreement comes before Congress, you can almost predict what happens: the elites rally to figure out a way to push through these deals, pouring in huge resources to buy votes and pushing a propaganda campaign that is far-reaching. And it is no different with the push to […]

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  I keep thinking that there will be a limit on how far thinking people will go to turn a blind eye to the death and misery brought to us courtesy of so-called "free trade". But, lo and behold, every day brings new wonders at the capacity of our government, and its servants in the […]

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    More news today: The economy shed 80,000 jobs in March, the third consecutive month of rising unemployment, presenting a stark sign that the country may already be in a recession. Sharp downturns in the manufacturing and construction sectors led the decline, the biggest in five years. The Labor Department also said employers cut far […]

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    Readers of this blog know that I have been pointing out for a long time that the majority of Americans have been in recession for a long time–it was partly masked by the housing bubble, which allowed a lot of people to pull out a whole bunch of cash from almost under the mattress […]

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  I happened to see a cartoon recently in which one person says to another, "My 401(k) feels like a 201(k)". That is, indeed, one of the other, less-talked about facts that many people are facing in the more-visible credit-crisis gripping our economy. You would think that that reality would force a serious rethinking of […]

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I have to admit to a knee-jerk dislike when I hear the name "General Electric". It goes back to the days when the company that claims "we bring good things to life" was deep in the business of producing nuclear weapons, which have a quirky ability to end life. Then, there was the reign of […]

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    You are going to see a lot of rubbish in the coming weeks about the virtues of yet another so-called "free trade" deal, this one with Colombia. It’s always interesting–mind-boggling and enraging as well–that proponents of so-called "free trade" spew a whole bunch of nonsense about the virtues of these deals and what we […]

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    Over a year ago, I wrote about the murderous conditions facing unionists in Colombia. Despite this, the Administration is pushing ahead with the so-called "free trade" deal with Colombia. From CongressDailyPM:      The  White House is pushing for a vote on the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade  agreement before the August recess, a top administration official […]

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    This morning, Sen. Obama is scheduled to give a major address on the economy. Yours truly is scheduled to appear on CNBC’s "Power Lunch" (hey, I didn’t come up with the name) at 1:20 p.m. (Eastern Time). I may not have a chance to post the entire speech here before the CNBC gig but […]

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