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Triana

(22,666 posts)
5. Fiscal Times...Just FYI...
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 08:28 AM
Apr 2015

Fiscal Times is backed by a wealthy philanthropist, investment banker and U.S. commerce secretary Peter G. Peterson (of "Fix the Debt" fame which despises Social Security and seeks to gut/cut/privatize it as a way to "fix" the debt).

It is staffed by established journalists, including former Post political writer and editor Eric Pianin; and it claims to run an independent, nonpartisan, non-ideological newsroom. . . . The main difference is that the Fiscal Times is run by a privately held company controlled by Peterson and his son Michael.

On Dec. 31, the Washington Post ran its first story from the Fiscal Times, a newsy report that support was building on Capitol Hill for a bipartisan commission to tackle the nation’s chronic deficits and mounting debts. As it happens, this is Peterson’s pet issue and the focus of the Peterson Foundation.

Peterson is the asshole who intends to "Fix the Debt" by scraping off of seniors - gutting and/or privatizing Social Security and Medicare.

I don't disagree with what's written in the OP from Fiscal Times about Warren, but I do want DUers to be aware of the Fiscal Times' funding and who runs it.


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Massive K&R..... daleanime Apr 2015 #1
Principles? Scuba Apr 2015 #2
Beat me to it. InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2015 #13
There was a poster here who said, and I quote, F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #21
What Elizabeth Warren Has That Hillary Clinton Needs AlbertCat Apr 2015 #3
You are what you are no matter what you say ...Hillary! L0oniX Apr 2015 #4
Fiscal Times...Just FYI... Triana Apr 2015 #5
The author is a solid progressive political journalist who writes for Salon, Huffpo and others. RiverLover Apr 2015 #15
Thanks! peacebird Apr 2015 #28
Are there any of our news sources not tainted by connections to big money? zeemike Apr 2015 #19
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The Unfinished Business of Financial Reform - Elizabeth Warren 4/15/15 (Full Text) mobeau69 Apr 2015 #8
Big thanks, mobeau69! RiverLover Apr 2015 #11
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K&R! peacebird Apr 2015 #29
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