There were many passages from Hillary Clinton’s recent address at the New School that I wasn’t crazy about, but for now I’ll just focus on one of them. In the course of describing the many ways she hopes to revitalize the American economy, Clinton turned to infrastructure: Then there are the new public investments that […]
Bad news for Republican presidential candidates searching for a fresh message beyond moldy Reagan nostalgia and tired anti-Obamaism: Hillary Clinton just stole a potentially powerful theme right from under them. In her economic policy speech Monday at the New School in Manhattan, Clinton said Corporate America deserves some of the blame for the weak and […]
Hillary Clinton selected a progressive venue on Monday to deliver a progressive economic message to appeal to a progressive audience. “The defining economic challenge of our time is clear,” Clinton said. “We must raise incomes for hard-working Americans, so they can afford a middle-class life.” Monday’s address at The New School for Social Research in […]
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”), which is designed to reduce various trade barriers between the United States and eleven Pacific Rim nations—Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam—hangs by a thread in the United States Congress. The immediate question is not the ratification of any future treaty. Rather, it is […]
As we have learned in the last few weeks, politicians and the pundits who support them have no problem deceiving the public to pass government programs that people would oppose if they simply knew the truth. Hillary Clinton’s comments over the weekend about her affection for the Export-Import Bank, suggesting that only ideologues would be against it, […]