Jeremy Ben-Ami: Our playbook to win the Iran fight
BLOG About one-third of the way through its 60-day review of the Iran deal, Congress is headed out of town this week, with 23 new Democratic Members of Congress announcing support for the deal, and seven, More...
Bernie Sanders is Officially a Presidential Candidate
– – The Independent Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders has formally declared his campaign for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President in 2016. He made the announcement in front of More...
Bernie Sanders to Officially Announce Presidential Run On Thursday
– – Its official! Bernie Sanders is running for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the United States in 2016. The Senator from Vermont will make his announcement on Thursday. The More...
Sen. Bernie Sanders Endorsing Emanuel’s Rival, Wants to Take Down Billionaire Oligarchs
Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders will be in Chicago this week, to endorse Jesus “Chuy” Garcia in his race against incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Sun Times reported. Sanders will More...
Carlyle’s David Rubenstein Accepts Honor at Museum of American Finance
At a gathering at the Museum of American Finance, Carlyle Group founder, David Rubinstein, accepted the John Whitehead Award, which is named after the co-chairman of Goldman Sachs who served as More...
Antonio Weiss Loss Might Be a Gain as Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s Adviser
In what was considered to be a blow to Antonio Weiss, former Lazard investment banker, and for the right wing of the Democratic Party, Antonio Weiss was not re-nominated as the Under Secretary for Domestic More...
Senator Al Franken Speaks Out Against Wall Street Links, Manufacturer Tax
Amid growing doubt around the confirmation of U.S. President Obama’s nominee to serve as the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for domestic finance, liberal senators such as Elizabeth Warren and Al More...
Jim Cramer on The Best Way to Save For College
– With growing concern expressed by such divergent personalities as Mark Cuban and Elizabeth Warren of the problems of student debt, it pays to start saving for college even while your kids are More...
Mark Cuban Concerned About The Student Loan Bubble
– Mark Cuban departed from his usual Ayn Rand-like attitude (he has a yacht named after the writer’s book “The Fountainhead”) to express concern for impoverished students, or More...
Senators Baldwin, Warren, Blast FDA’s Proposed Policy on Blood Donations
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took to Twitter on Tuesday to criticize the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s proposed new policy on blood donations from gay men, saying that while the recommendation More...