What’s the Difference Between Cancer and Donald Trump?
Jul. 29, 2015 4:58 amBy Thom Hartmann A...So-called “free market" or "unregulated capitalism” is really nothing more than the cancer-stage of capitalism. And that uninhibited cancerous growth has spread, so that now even our political system is infected with the cancer of corporatism.
Donald Trump’s candidacy is an example of how our political system is being eaten alive by the cancer-stage of capitalism.
Who Does Our Economy Serve?
Jul. 28, 2015 8:27 amBy Thom Hartmann A...During a speech at New York University Friday, Hillary Clinton took aim at “quarterly capitalism,” her name for corporate America’s endless - and senseless - pursuit of profits.
It's time for the SEC to expose CEO pay!
Jul. 27, 2015 11:59 amBy Thom Hartmann A...The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 requires corporations to disclose their CEO-to-median worker pay ratio, but that information is still being hidden from workers, shareholders, and the American public.
That's why the AFL-CIO, MoveOn.org, CREDO Action, and other groups delivered a massive petition to the Securities and Exchange Commission last week.Fox-So-Called-News Is GOP TV in the 21st Century
Jul. 24, 2015 5:04 amBy Thom Hartmann A...It’s time to stop calling the Fox cable TV network a “News” network and to start calling it what it is: a propaganda network for the billionaires, like Rupert Murdoch, who own the Republican Party.
And, it’s Roger Ailes’ dream of GOP TV come to life.
The win-win of putting a price on carbon.
Jul. 23, 2015 7:40 amBy Thom Hartmann A...Electricity bills in the Northeast have dropped $460 million dollars since that region put a price on carbon.
Back in 2011, nine Northeastern states established the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative – better known as RGGI. And, the benefits of that regional cap-and-trade system just keep adding up.Trump is Right On One Thing...It's the Trade Stupid!
Jul. 22, 2015 8:35 amBy Thom Hartmann A...After one month on the campaign trail - Donald Trump is still leading the Republican field according to recent polls.
The media has spent most of the last month fanning the flames around Trump’s inflammatory statements about immigration. And this weekend he conquered the headlines by saying that he likes “people who weren’t captured” while talking about John McCain’s service record.
What a Walker Presidency Would Look Like: Let's Turn Back the Clock to a Dark Period in US History
Jul. 21, 2015 10:25 amBy Thom Hartmann A...If you want a glimpse of what the US would look like under President Scott Walker, you need to turn back the clock to one of the darkest periods in 20th-century US history: the Lochner era.
Here's a little history lesson, in case you don't know what I'm talking about.