On Friday, NewsBusters asked, "When Will Media Blame Economy and Bear Market on Obama?" Don't expect Bill Clinton's former labor secretary Robert Reich to ever do so, for in an article published at Salon Thursday, the UC-Berkeley professor claimed "every major policy that led to this ...

If you wait long enough, somebody's probably going to articulate what you are thinking, and probably say it better. Case in point: I haven't had much time to type out my thoughts on the nation's fear of "nationalization", but Robert Reich does a pretty good job of describing something that's been bo...

Anthony Faiola at the Washington Post writes: Downturn Accelerates As It Circles The Globe Economies Worse Off Than Predicted Just Weeks Ago The world economy is deteriorating more quickly than leading economists predicted only weeks ago, with Britain yesterday becoming the latest nation to surprise...

These are scary times economically. I want to believe that things won't get too bad, but it's a struggle when knowledgeable people such as Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, and Robert Reich keep telling us how apprehensive they are. Then there are the real prophets of doom such as Gerald Celente. He om...

Image via Wikipedia The LA Progressive The government is doing a lousy job helping distressed homeowners. And according to John Dugan, the Comptroller of the Currency, the little that's been done has had surprisingly little effect. Nearly 36 percent of homeowners holding mortgages whose terms were a...

CHICAGO (SR) - President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers are telling the public to temper their expectations concerning what the new President will be able to accomplish. “Look, all candidates have to promise stuff to get elected, I don’t think anybody actually expects Mr. Obama to r...

One of the few blogs I read regularly is Robert Reich's blog. Reich used to be President Clinton's Labor Secretary, and he now teaches at U.C Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy. He believes that our nation's economy is now in such severe difficulty that it qualifies as being in a "mini-depre...

Bill Clinton's labor secretary, Robert Reich, gave an interview for the Times magazine this weekend focused largely on economic and political issues. But he also recounted a college date he had with Hillary Clinton, apparently before she moved on from 4-foot-10 Reich to barbecue-fed, 6-foot-2 Bill. ...

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich answers a question. Actually, when I decided I was going to blog this little interview, I planned to feature this line about why our drilling for more oil isn't a good solution to high gas prices:When you consider that the oil we pump goes into a global oil mar...

This is either good news or bad news, depending on how you feel about economists: When asked if she could name a single economist who backs her call for a gas tax holiday this summer, HRC said “I’m not going to put my lot in with economists.” Robert Reich, a former Clinton Administ...