| Jul 30, 2012 | Economy / BusinessAre America’s rich getting richer? Certainly. Every official yardstick shows that America’s most affluent are upping their incomes much faster than everyone else. How fast? Between 1980 and 2010, note economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, incomes...
| | Economy / BusinessWhat a blessing it is for Mitt Romney to serve as the Republican nominee for president. He’s a living portrait of Mr. Wall Street Man. As his candidacy unfolds, it’s allowing us commoners to get a peek into how the privileged few rig the rules for their...
| Jul 16, 2012 | Economy / BusinessDon’t just hang Your head and moan, Buy a loophole Of your own. One intriguing aspect of today’s taxation debate is that it’s so shameless. Republican leaders aren’t embarrassed in the slightest to shill for the rich. Consider this gem from...
| May 7, 2012 | Economy / BusinessA coalition of some of the world’s biggest and greediest corporations, which lobbied to shift their tax burden from themselves to America’s fast-disappearing middle class, is no more. The WIN America Campaign — led by Apple, Google, Cisco, and Pfizer —...
