Jan. 11, 2012.  Republicans blame the "Democratic Congress" for their debt increases. Not so. When Democrats did control Congress, they reduced the Republican budgets on average. So, let's add up the debt under Reagan and the Bushes. It pretty easy with the Treasury's "Debt to the Penny" web site. Just a couple of subtractions and one addition brings us to  $9.5 Trillion; then add the interest.

January 2, 2012.  Facing hard times and an out-of-touch, tea-party Congress, the country was ripe for an anti-greed movement, and who better to target than the fat cats that caused the mess, got bailed out and thumbed their noses at us. Occupy Wall Street got the country talking about the real problem. But OWS needs to focus—it needs a "cause." Luckily, the pieces of this puzzle fit together. Corpocracy is the 99% issue, as even many in the Tea Party would agree.

January 1, 2011.  What if two of America's super-rich decided to secretly buy themselves a political party — the ultimate form of crony capitalism. They would fund a foundation to train organizers and provide support and ideology for startup chapters all over America. The Koch brothers have spent in the hundreds of millions — mere pocket change — and they're delighted with their Tea Party. See how they do it and what's coming next. Don't be fooled.

December 30, 2011. Never, since the Great Depression, has the US economy suffered such a loss of jobs. But it's not the 2 million jobs lost during the Bush years that has hurt so many, it's the fact that 9 million new jobs were needed just to keep up with the growing workforce. Finally we're gaining ground—very slowly. Don't be fooled ...>>

November 5, 2011.  See this amazing 60-Minutes interview with Jack Arbamoff . ("I only owned 100 Congressman.") Abramoff explains in fascinating detail, how crony capitalism works — and just how easy it is for business to buy our government. Crony capitalism is much of what wrecks our government and makes people hate Uncle Sam. ...>>

December 10, 2011.  Hyperinflation has been a popular conservative topic since 2008 (Glenn Beck, Peter Schiff), but really, can you get any sillier? Trillions of dollars ago, at the start of the recession (Dec. 2007), inflation was about 2.4%. Now (Nov. 2011) it's about 2.1%. Hyperinflation? No, just ...>>

April 11, 2011. Reagan got elected by telling the country the debt was "out of control." But, compared to national income, it was the lowest in 50 years. He probably didn't know. But his supply-side economists did, and they lied to America.

Bush senior knew they were lying and called it Voodoo economics—meaning: "No, cutting taxes, would not raise more money and cure the deficit." Well, duh. They've tried this ...>>