Features related to the new york times

OTS_8517_Peter_Welch_SG1
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch on Amgen’s Sweet Senate Deal
January 25, 2013

Bill talks to U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) about the Senate’s costly giveaway to the world’s largest biotechnology firm. Continue reading

The exterior view of Amgen Inc. offices is shown in Fremont, Calif., Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Amgen Inc. reports quarterly earnings Wednesday, April 21, 2010, after the market close. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Foul Play in the Senate
January 25, 2013 | On Democracy

The Senate’s gift to biotech firm Amgen is a brazen example of the crony capitalism that erodes our democracy. Continue reading

OTS_8517_Peter_Welch_SG1
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch on the Cost of Senate Favoritism
January 25, 2013

U.S. Rep. Peter Welch describes “vintage crony capitalism” behind a sweetheart deal between the Senate and the world’s largest biotech company. Continue reading

Left: Paul Krugman of Princeton University, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2008, holds his Nobel lecture at the Aula Magna of the Stockholm University, in Stockholm, Monday Dec. 8, 2008. Logotype of Swedish Academy of Sciences is in the background. (AP Photo/Fredrik Persson, Scanpix Sweden) Right: A portrait of Lord John Maynard Keynes taken in his office at the treasury. (08/24/45) AP Photo
Krugman on Keynes
January 13, 2013 | News & Notes
Paul Krugman attributes many of the theories he uses in analyzing today's depression to economist John Maynard Keynes, whose ideas rose to prominence in the 1930s during America's last major depression.
Paul-Krugman_1295_FS
Full Show: Paul Krugman on Why Jobs Come First
January 11, 2013 | Moyers & Company

The New York Times columnist explains why our top priority should be getting America back to work – if only Washington would stop throwing distractions in the way. Continue reading