| Nov 20, 2013 | Cartoon|Food / Farming
| Nov 19, 2013 | Economy / BusinessSomething astounding is happening in Switzerland. For the first time ever, citizens in a modern nation are voting on whether to create what essentially amounts to a “maximum wage.” On November 24, the Swiss will vote on a ballot initiative that bans any...
| | Food / FarmingIf you doubt that big money and lies can pervert elections, look at Initiative 522 in Washington State. A grassroots coalition of consumers, organic producers, environmentalists, and others who want honesty in food labeling put it on the ballot. They lost. The measure...
| | Economy / BusinessDavid Cote, the CEO of Honeywell, has more than $134 million in his personal retirement fund. If I were sitting on a nest egg that big, I might feel a bit sheepish about telling ordinary grandmas and grandpas to take a cut in their Social Security payments. But Cote —...
| Nov 13, 2013 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Peter Hart debunks the myth of a “grand bargain” that requires Social Security benefit cuts, Jim Hightower points out that taxpayers shouldn’t help JPMorgan Chase cover the cost of its $13 billion in fines, and Jill...