Ross Perot (1930-2019) was a bit of a flake. But he also tried to save the Democratic Party from itself by attempting to warn it away from NAFTA. Clinton wouldn’t
Al Gore said, in selling NAFTA, “We can create hundreds of thousands more [jobs]. We know this [free trade] works. If it doesn’t work
I’m writing minutes after the victory of the Bernie Sanders of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López
Have Progressives lost their minds? We protested in Seattle against a tariff-free world in which workers in every nation are pitted in a contest to see who will work for lowest wages. The majority of Democratic senators voted against
Estoy escribiendo minutos después de la victoria del Bernie Sanders de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Todos lo llaman, “AMLO”. Esta es en realidad la reelección de AMLO: Él ganó la presidencia por primera vez en el 2006
While you Democrats are pounding each other to a pulp in Pennsylvania
The kids were snoozing so I drove along the back roads skirting the Lackawanna River on a dawn hunt for
South Carolina 2000: Six hundred police in riot gear facing a few
Read the Interview with Palast from the Dollars & Sense magazine spring issue about to hit the streets
for Blog For America
Don’t kid yourselves. If you think Bush’s lower-than-my-laces ratings portend victory for Democrats, that’s what Rove wants you to think. Bush shoplifted Ohio (and New Mexico and Iowa and…) see, he doesn’t need your vote. And he doesn’t count your vote, either. The Rove-bots are preparing next year’s model (probably Good Doctor Frist) and will load the bad vibes on to the lame duck and the lame Dick.
In case you haven’t the least idea what the heck it means for China to “float” its currency, let me put it in the language we economists use: China’s float don’t mean squat.
Yet our President, a guy whose marks in Economics 101 are too embarrassing to publish here, ran out to hail the fact that buying Chinese money will now cost more dollars.
President Kerry might have made the right decisions; too bad Senator Kerry didn’t.
