The Other 95 Percent

| Apr 23, 2010 | Economy / BusinessThe next time you read about another tea party protest convened to decry the tax bogeyman, log on to “The Other 95%” website (http://theother95.com). There, you’ll learn that “unlike President Bush’s 2001 tax cuts, which went to the...

Injustice Served

| Apr 20, 2010 | Economy / BusinessBradley Birkenfeld, who is serving time in a Pennsylvania federal prison for his role in Swiss-bank tax evasion schemes that he exposed, is now petitioning President Obama for clemency. He submitted his clemency application on tax day, arguing that he has worked with...

Keep Grant on the $50 Bill

| Apr 19, 2010 | Economy / BusinessThere’s yet another movement afoot to put Ronald Reagan’s face on the $50 bill, replacing that of Ulysses S. Grant. A number of Republicans in Congress have been beating the drums in support of the idea. “One decade into the 21st century, it’s...

Corporate Murder

| | Economy / BusinessA mass murder has taken place in an American workplace, taking 29 lives. The authorities know who did it, so shouldn’t that person be made to pay for this heinous crime? Yes! But the killer is one of America’s largest coal corporations, Massey Energy...

Seismic Inequality

| Apr 12, 2010 | Economy / BusinessHaiti and Chile are still scrambling to deal with devastating earthquakes while pundits discuss the profound differences between those two natural disasters. Haiti’s January 12 quake was reported as magnitude 7.0, leveled the capital city, and killed more than...