Mitch McConnell Goes ‘Soup Nazi’ – ‘No Stimulus For You!’

“The Enemy of The People,” Senate Majority Leader “Moscow Mitch” McConnell, looks at the millions of Americans out of work and struggling financially, waiting in food lines and facing utility shutoffs and eviction from their home this winter, and does his best impression of the “Soup Nazi” from Seinfeld: “No stimulus for you!” It’s not … Read more

Congress must investigate the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars in the Paycheck Protection Program

On July 1, Congress voted to extend the deadline for small businesses to apply for approximately $134 billion in Paycheck Protection Program funds until Aug. 8, before Congress departed for a two week Fourth of July recess. Last week, Treasury, SBA missed the deadline to disclose small business loan data for the Paycheck Protection Program. “[T]the … Read more

The Trump Depression: the road not taken to economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic (Updated)

The U.S. economic response to the coronavirus pandemic has been entirely ass-backwards and is doomed to cause greater economic pain in coming months. It relied on antiquated state unemployment insurance systems that Republican states have specifically designed to be hard to use to dissuade the unemployed from filing for benefits to which they are entitled, … Read more