Economy / Business - OtherWords

How Credit Cards Make Us More Unequal

Credit card companies fleece retailers to give high-end spenders cash back — a system the rest of us end up subsidizing.

If they can “give back” so much, it’s probably because they’ve been taking too much.

Trump is counting on the working class he’s betraying most aggressively. Can the left get out of suburbia and back to its roots?

You might have missed it amid the impeachment coverage, but the president is reintroducing catastrophic Reagan-era disability cuts.

I know firsthand that the idealistic view of entrepreneurship is not the reality that most of us experience.

The prospect of a 2 percent tax on wealth over $50 million has rich Americans considering expatriating.

Industry-friendly regulators are letting chemical companies flood the country with toxins. It should be a scandal.

Greta Thunberg teaches Davos a lesson.

If you’ve got more money than you can spend, you can spend your extra wealth on… guarding your extra wealth.

We’ve advanced beyond Little Women’s 19th century gender roles. Let’s get past its outdated moralizing about poverty, too.