Barcelona – Please Don’t Go.What’s on your mind?

CBS put some clips up of the ‘Cuda’s interview with Oprah, and it appears, rather predictably, that Oprah went easy on her. I was kind of hoping for a James Frey-type smackdown, but that just wasn’t in the cards.

The Business Roundtable, an organization representing the CEOs of the largest companies in America, has said in a new report that the status quo in health care is completely unsustainable. It’s something that’s been forgotten as the debate rages in Congress, but the fight over health care is essentially a fight over what will be [...]

AIG’s CEO Robert Benmosche is one arrogant and clueless piece of work — like a reincarnation of Marie Antoinette.

In a major restructuring, cable channel Current TV–co-founded by Al Gore–has laid off 80 employees, about 25% of its staff.

Most of the axed were based in the Los Angeles office, affecting in-house production and striking a yet another blow to the city’s already suffering entertainment industry. The original programs “Current Tonight,” “Current Takeover” and “Current Exposed” have been canceled and David Neumann, the head of programming was fired. About 300 employees total remain.

The NYT tells us that manufacturing workers are overpaid, and due for substantial wage cuts. This from the same paper that wants to help us understand the financial problems of the rich.

A new poll by Quinnipiac University is out, and it has less-than-stellar news for Joe Lieberman (not that he cares). Check out these bottom line numbers. 1. On the question, “Do you support or oppose giving people the option of being covered by a government health insurance plan that would compete with private plans?”, 56% [...]

There is some good news and bad news today on how Harry Reid plans to pay for health care reform.

According to CEPR’s new report, The Changing Face of Labor, the overall decline of labor has actually led to a reversal of the traditional image of labor as “male, pale, and stale.” Indeed, just 38% of union members are white men, Latinos are the fastest growing demographic in labor, and by 2020 the majority of union members will be women.

While many people think of the Federal Reserve as an independent body set up by the banks to enrich themselves – and for the most part, it is – there are certainly ways to influence it in the proper direction. The best way is for Congress to threaten to take away much of its power.