| Jan 25, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySometimes the daily news about our billionaires just doesn’t make sense. Last year, for instance, ended with a torrent of news stories about how poorly the world’s billionaires fared in 2022. Bloomberg tagged the 12 months that had just gone past “a year to forget,”...
| Nov 23, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedA good day’s work for a good day’s pay. Should this age-old wisdom apply to overpaid CEOs as well as their workers? A Delaware court will soon decide, a turn of events that must have the richest man in the known universe, Elon Musk, feeling more than a little bit...
| Nov 2, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIt’s said a frog will sit calmly in warming water until it boils. Will we do the same? Extremists and white nationalists have been turning up the heat on our fragile democracy for years — from their deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville to the storming of...
| Oct 19, 2022 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyMy wife and I recently had the tremendous misfortune of needing to buy a car. Car prices, you may know, reached an all-time high between this year and last. There are now rumblings of a gradual decline, but rising interest rates will likely offset any savings. So with...
| Mar 16, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs part of the sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its European partners are cracking down on Russian oligarchs. They’re freezing assets and tracking the yachts, private jets, and luxury real estate holdings of these Russian...
