| Jul 15, 2015 | Economy / BusinessI have a love-hate relationship with ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft. I love the convenience and level of service that traditional taxis don’t offer. But I hate what they portend for the future of work with their rapidly expanding business model that pretends...
| Apr 8, 2015 | Economy / BusinessThis tax season, America’s billionaires are toasting you, the ordinary taxpayer. That’s because you’re the one picking up the tab for our nation’s ailing infrastructure of roads, bridges, and rail transport. You’re also footing the bill for military forces, disaster...
| Sep 16, 2014 | Economy / BusinessHere’s an unusual super-rich guy with a strange message for his fellow 1-percent-of-the-1-percenters. Nick Hanauer, who made billions as an Internet entrepreneur, recently wrote an open letter to his fellow über-richies. “The true job creators are...
| Apr 9, 2014 | Economy / BusinessWhat does Facebook’s recent purchase of WhatsApp have to do with the estate tax? Actually, a good bit, if you’re concerned about America’s concentration of wealth. Why? Because an economy needs effective checks and balances. A tax on inherited...
| Mar 19, 2014 | Economy / BusinessNew York has a new mayor who wants to remake his deeply unequal city into much more than a playground for the super-rich. The experts who track global wealth trends think he’ll fail. A recent report from Knight Frank, a global consultancy firm, is predicting...
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