New Orleans One of the things I missed while on my work-cation in Montana was the emergence of a newish labor-backed workers advocacy organization called Good Jobs Nation. The unions backing this play are SEIU, Teamsters, and the Farmworkers, all members of the Change To Win (C2W) federation, as was the UFCW, another supporter, until …
Category: Financial Justice
Phil Gramm, Architect of Sequester and Recession, Looks for Someone Else to Blame
New Orleans Phil Gramm, the former Texas Senator and head of the Senate Banking Committee from 1995-2000, wrote a “pin the tail on the donkey” piece in the Wall Street Journal trying to find someone other than himself to blame for the Great Recession. The piece was almost unintelligible, though the headline and the first …
Dwolla, Lending Club, Housing, and Women Should Block Summers at the Fed
New Orleans It is hard to believe that there is really a campaign in earnest to push Larry Summers as the new Chairmen of the Federal Reserve, and that President Obama seems to be somewhat supporting his candidacy. Admittedly, the other front runner is a distinguished woman, the economist Janet Yellin, is also being targeted …