Obviously, Palin is very entertaining, but why isn’t anyone talking about how dangerous this women is? Charles Sauer, The Market Institute & Alex Lawson, Social Security Works & Bryan Pruitt, RedState join...
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Hillary Clinton’s latest knock on Bernie Sanders – that he voted to deregulate Wall Street back in the 2000s – is as disingenuous as it comes. Gaius Publius joins...
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Hillary Clinton says that all the experts think her Wall Street reform is the best. But is that actually the case? Not every expert thinks that Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street reform is the way to go. Some of America’s leading economists actually think it’s woefully inadequate – and they say that Bernie Sanders’ plan to break up the big banks is much – much better. In fact – earlier this month a group of 170 economists signed a letter officially endorsing Bernie Sanders’ Wall Street reform plan. One of those economists joins us now. Professor William Black, University of...
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Thom Hartmann is joined in studio by Mike Lofgren, Former congressional staff member who served on both the House and Senate budget committees. His book about Congress, The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted, appeared in paperback on August 27, 2013. His latest book is The Deep...
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Hillary Clinton isn’t telling a true story about Bernie Sanders and his vote for the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, or CFMA. As Robert Scheer has pointed over at TruthDig, then-Congressman Sanders voted for the CMFA not because he wanted to, but because he had to. The CMFA had been shoved into an omnibus spending bill at the last minute as part of a deal between Republicans and President Bill Clinton, and because this was a time when, you know, Congress actually did its job, Sanders bit the bullet and voted for the whole package — CFMA included — to...
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