Brewtown Gumshoe

The right-wing has lost any slight grasp on reality they might have had.

Awhile back I linked to an article by Peter Dreier about the mortgage interest deduction. President Obama has proposed to cap the mortgage...

Something interesting (and scary) to ponder.

Here is an interesting piece by Michael Rosen which elaborates on a theme I'd posted earlier.

Can we end the push for Pabst Farms already? [Hat tip to James Rowen] Kudos to Mayor Barrett for telling the state to put the kaibash on t...

WOW! Sorry to get caught up on Megan McArdle in the last few posts, but WOW! Her delusions of grandeur are overwhelming. She “ debates ” Gle...

Whose side is Geithner on? For Further Reading: Banking On The Brink Nationalize Insolvent Banks Nationalize The Banks The Banks Have Stole...

Dean Baker tries to discuss the stimulus plan, the housing bubble, and the Federal Reserve, among other issues, with Megan McArdle (conserv...

Thom Hartmann

Another double standard I happen to see running almost daily on television is the notion that Obama is talking down the economy. By being h...

The mayor of Lansing reads the riot act to yet another dimwitted Fox host. [Hat tip to Michael Rosen] For more on this, see here and here ...

How can it be that increasing our deficit for Iraq (which will cost approximately $3 trillion ) is good policy - even though it has worsened...

This story in the USA Today seems eerily familiar to the WMC s efforts to pack the courts with business-friendly judges here in Wisconsin (...

Dean Baker, in a great interview here , gives a harsh scolding to the ruling elite whom drove us off a cliff.

In Sunday's Journal-Sentinel, John Torinus has a bullet-pointed, long-winded sermon on the beauty and stimulative-nature of entrepreneu...

Public Enemies

Tearing Down the Reagan Myth The Failed Prophet

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This is the title of Dean Baker 's new book . He was one of the first over the last two decades to get it right about the stock, dollar,...

Calculated Risk has been all over this proposal , in the stimulus bill, to give homebuyers a tax credit of 10% of the purchase price up to $...

Wisconsin courts have again sided with business and have taken a blow at fair tax collection and a fair tax burden. Marie Rohde of the Mil...

We'll all be glad we no longer have to tolerate the policies , plunders , and lies...but we'll surely miss the antics .

It's tax season. People are receiving their property tax bills for the January 1st, 2008 assessment. So there is a lot of chatter about ...

Rachel Maddow explains more on the double-standard of the bailouts and exposes the backroom shenanigans whereby Wall Street is stealing, in...

Within the last century our economy has experienced peaks and valleys punctuated by (now) two depressions . Presently, we're not (neith...

Corporations (which have rights like authentic people – they gain such through being chartered by obtaining a certificate of incorporation...

The recession we're in at this point is an opportune time to commence three interrelated initiatives. 1) Campaign Finance Reform 2) Univ...

New Tax Rules: The Hidden Corporate Bailout Bush's Final F.U. *

Greg LeRoy, Good Jobs First’s executive director, proclaims , “And while proposed federal aid to the Big 3 would take the form of a loan, th...

I warned against Pabst Farms back in February 2008 . Another retail wonderland is the last thing Wisconsin needs to be publicly-funding at t...

Fed Refused To Disclose Recipients Of $2 Trillion

These links tell it all: Reduce The Wages Of American Workers Automotive Industry Necessary For National Security Bailout City Madness Death...

James Rowen, of the Political Environment (an excellent blog), gave kudos to John Kovari, of the Public Policy Forum for a blog he posted...

I warned Cudahy back in June. But it looks as though they're out of ideas and still pushing forward on plans to build a Wal-Mart. Tis ...

Class warfare is alive and well. And what better time for it to rear it's ugly head -- when we're teetering on a depression. But, th...

"[Obama] neither received a broad mandate from the public nor the needed large congressional majorities." -- Columnist Robert Nova...

Two reasons invariably come up when discussing the tax burden: who pays and why they should or shouldn’t pay. “The richest – top 1% - pay a...

Thanks to Citizens for Tax Justice for this nice synopsis on the failures of supply-side economics.

Tightening security “standards” and purging registration lists is just a couple of the tactics being used by Republicans in trying to stea...

Here's why a reallocation of the property tax burden (onto those more able to pay) is better than merely slashing budgets and programs: ...

Two more reasons why we pay more and the well-off pay less. From the Institute for Wisconsins Future : Two Supreme Court rulings undermine s...

The Community Reinvestment Act ( CRA ) nor Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are responsible for the current financial crisis. 11 Lies Conservativ...

Creepiness, senility, and a bad temper -- but this clip of grandpa is just funny. HEH!

The list of privatization/deregulation failure is long. Health care, the airlines, military contractors, school choice, prisons, utilities, ...

The financial meltdown is one of those “ once in a century ” occurrences whereby the citizens could actually walk away with the upper hand, ...

Supply-side economics and the accompanying policies of the last thirty years have produced great returns for Wall Street-ers while devast...

No matter what the problem or the cause - cutting taxes, privatizing (or eliminating) public services, and/or eliminating programs always s...