When the White House first got wind of the executive bonuses at American International Group, the disbelief was palpable.
As President-elect Barack Obama continues to push for quick action on a large-scale economic stimulus program, top Democrats on Wednesday said Congress must pass the bill by mid-February.
There's an elephant in the room every time Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson steps to a podium to recount the serial emergency actions he and other top officials have taken (and, as revealed Monday, will continue to take) to prop up, bail out, jerry-rig, bolster, stabilize, or otherwise rescue capitalists and property owners.
Unemployment could reach 8% in 2009, economists say
Admit it. you want to see some justice handed out on Wall Street. Thanks to the Great Mortgage Panic of 2008, your home value is tumbling, credit is harder to get and the job market may turn a lot tougher. And let's not even talk about your 401(k) balance.
Sen. Barack Obama received key endorsements Friday from a top former Clinton administration official and two former Democratic senators.
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich warned Americans on Wednesday not to be overly optimistic that the U.S. economy might rebound by the end of summer.
Back in 1996, around the time Bill Clinton was cruising toward reelection against Bob Dole, I had a conversation with Labor Secretary Robert Reich about the pathetic state of America's unions. Reic...
Have an economist you want to embarrass? Ask him why the U.S. economy is doing so well.
The headline happened to appear in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently, but you hear the sentiment everywhere: WALL STREET'S MERGER MANIA AFFECTS MANY ON MAIN STREET; SHAREHOLDERS WIN, BUT WORKERS...
When the White House first got wind of the executive bonuses at American International Group, the disbelief was palpable.
As President-elect Barack Obama continues to push for quick action on a large-scale economic stimulus program, top Democrats on Wednesday said Congress must pass the bill by mid-February.
There's an elephant in the room every time Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson steps to a podium to recount the serial emergency actions he and other top officials have taken (and, as revealed Monday, will continue to take) to prop up, bail out, jerry-rig, bolster, stabilize, or otherwise rescue capitalists and property owners.
Unemployment could reach 8% in 2009, economists say
Admit it. you want to see some justice handed out on Wall Street. Thanks to the Great Mortgage Panic of 2008, your home value is tumbling, credit is harder to get and the job market may turn a lot tougher. And let's not even talk about your 401(k) balance.
Sen. Barack Obama received key endorsements Friday from a top former Clinton administration official and two former Democratic senators.
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich warned Americans on Wednesday not to be overly optimistic that the U.S. economy might rebound by the end of summer.
Back in 1996, around the time Bill Clinton was cruising toward reelection against Bob Dole, I had a conversation with Labor Secretary Robert Reich about the pathetic state of America's unions. Reic...
Have an economist you want to embarrass? Ask him why the U.S. economy is doing so well.
The headline happened to appear in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently, but you hear the sentiment everywhere: WALL STREET'S MERGER MANIA AFFECTS MANY ON MAIN STREET; SHAREHOLDERS WIN, BUT WORKERS...
Take the popular cartoon Dilbert, pump it up on steroids, multiply it by about a million, and you begin to approach what it's like to work in Washington. It's a warped, wacky world, as portrayed by...
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Picture this. Ten-year-old children get up before dawn every morning and go to work. They are paid by the piece, not by a guaranteed hourly wage. They get no benefits. And they work seven days a we...
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Dear Morningliner: On a recent visit to Las Vegas, I felt the need for some inspirational literature, like The Power of Positive Thinking , by the late Norman Vincent Peale, but the Gamblers Book S...
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Chicago -- Hooters, a national restaurant chain which has achieved notoriety for its scantily clad waitresses, has been accused of sexual discrimination by a man who claims the company refused to h...
When Andy Hansen brought home a report card with a disappointing C in math, his parents didn't ground him or send him to a tutor. They sued his teacher. On Friday, after a year and six different ap...
A CEO we know has disgustedly passed along a note he and others received from the OAW -- the Labor Department's Office of the American Workplace. The OAW serves as a handy backdrop for Labor Secret...
Can anything be done to reverse the long slide of America's unions? The answer frequently given around here is ''no, fortunately,'' but the Clintonites obviously mean to try. The emerging official ...
Is the Secretary of Labor warming to the idea of a mandatory raise? That's the gist of a recent memo Robert Reich sent to the President proposing that the Labor Department study a plan to increase ...
You gotta watch those guys every minute. Just when it seems as though something useful, or at least harmless, is coming out of this Administration, one looks more closely and -- they've done it aga...
By standards commonly invoked in the past, American labor relations would seem ; to be remarkably serene. Strike activity is at a post-World War II low: In the latest 12-month period, only about 1/...
Will the Clinton Administration make good on its campaign promise to impose a 1.5% payroll tax on companies with more than 50 workers that don't spend at % least that much on training? Not necessar...
WE STILL CAN'T be sure exactly what Bill Clinton meant when he promised the country change. But at least we now know who his change agents will be. His choices point to an Administration that will ...
LAWRENCE BOSSIDY, CEO of Allied-Signal, predicts ''organizational revolution'' for corporate America. Says David Nadler, president of Delta Consulting Group, who works with the chiefs of AT&T, Corn...
Across the land, up hill and down dale, the people are coming out for industrial policy. As previously and derisively noted in this space, Paul Tsongas is for it. Ross Perot seems to be for it. (He...
''For Middle Americans, the American Dream is vanishing.'' -- Robert Reich, Harvard lecturer
COMPETITIVENESS 12 THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY: WHERE WE STAND Will the U.S. star in the next century or will Japan and Europe command the stage? FORTUNE gives American competitiveness an encouraging,...
| In a series of interesting and successful books about economic affairs, Robert B. Reich has established himself as the leading liberal political economist, succeeding his retired Harvard colleagu...
If a new world is indeed to be born in the aftermath of the Cold War, the midwives will be business leaders. So, at least, argues Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future, a research outfit in Me...
WHEN JAPANESE electronics giant Matsushita agreed to buy Hollywood stalwart MCA last month for almost $7 billion, it was the largest purchase ever of a U.S. company by a Japanese outfit. But it als...
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IT'S HARD TO SPOT Vice President George Bush without an economist at hand. The Yale Phi Beta Kappa in economics figures that distinguished conservative thinkers can help him convey an upbeat econom...
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