Chrystia Freeland (digital editor, Thomson Reuters, and author, “Plutocrats”), Robert Scheer (editor-in-chief, Truthdig.com, and author, “The Great American Stickup”), Arturo Carmona (executive director, Presente.org), Rick Jacobs (founder and chair, Courage Campaign) and David Shuster (Current TV correspondent).
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Eliot Spitzer: Even Wall Street has turned against the Romney-Norquist anti-tax view
“The mainstream corporate leadership, many of them Romney’s own guys, telling the King of CEOs and his Republican puppet master that their ideas just won’t work shakes the very foundation of the Romney-Norquist worldview.” —Eliot Spitzer watch video
Will the October jobs report shake up the election?
“We have such grotesque income inequality now, we are betraying the hope of the founders for stakeholders, we are betraying the idea of a more or less middle-class society. … And people know that, they know that in their gut.” [...] watch video
The GOP’s ‘demonization of the Latino community’ has Latino voters fired up
“[Latinos] are not going to be dissuaded from the polls — to the contrary, they’re going to fight for their rights and they’re going to vote in large numbers.” —Arturo Carmona watch video
Banks proving they can’t police themselves
Sixteen banks have now received subpoenas in the growing Libor scandal. Can the business world really police itself? read post
