| Oct 2, 2013 | Economy / BusinessA hundred years ago, on October 3, 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the first modern federal tax on income. John Buenker has been writing about the events that led to that signing for a good bit of the last 50 years. His 1985 book, The Income Tax and the...
| | Economy / BusinessOur tax money As it stands, Oft ends up In private hands. These economically challenging times haven’t ended the golden deals every level of government offers business. State and federal statutes remain loaded with these giveaways. They include grants,...
| Oct 1, 2013 | Economy / BusinessSomeone should make a movie about JPMorgan and title it: “Bankers Gone Wild.” Not long ago, America’s biggest Wall Street Empire was hailed as a paragon of financial integrity. Not now. JPMorgan has been assessed record fines of nearly a billion...
| Sep 25, 2013 | Economy / BusinessThe Hollywood blockbuster film, Elysium, depicts a polarized Los Angeles in the year 2154. The vast majority of inhabitants live in overpopulated and polluted slums, toiling in grinding poverty. Meanwhile, a wealthy elite live on Elysium, a space station modeled after...
| | Economy / BusinessWatching grown men fulminate in public can be unnerving. Michael Piwowar and Daniel Gallagher — two distinctly CEO-friendly members of the federal Securities and Exchange Commission — recently did plenty of fulminating. Piwowar and Gallagher had little choice. They...
| | Economy / BusinessAs our jobs And pay degrade, Moguls smirk And tout “Free Trade” It’s no wonder President Barack Obama refuses to let Americans see those two new trade deals he’s negotiating. Neither the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) nor the Transatlantic Trade and...
