George Soros The three most famous super-rich liberals are George Soros, Warren Buffet (notwithstanding his advising the Shwarzenegger campaign), and Bill Gates Sr. (Gates Sr. is not personally rich, but…
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Matt Yglesias says the median household is probably richer than the median household in 1989
…goods are not included in the baskets used to construct the indices. This means that by waiting until the super cool but super expensive phase is over, the BLS and…
Both the rich and ordinary Americans misunderstand their economic interests
…care about those so distant from the well-heeled in-group appears to be diminishing as the gap between the well-heeled and the rest of us widens. Those super-wealthy corporate managers and…
Scott Walker vs. the Walton Family and McDonald’s’ CEO
…have to worry about Walmart and McDonald’s exercising their First Amendment speech rights by donating to Walker’s campaign or Super PAC, since if he wins he will put them out…
The Key to Defeating Trump in the General Election Is in a Single Sentence of His in Last Night’s Debate: Angry Americans want big tax cuts for the wealthy
…Donald Trump, during last night’s debate Back last fall when Ben Carson was surging and according to the polls had overtaken Trump in Iowa, the Koch brothers’ main super PAC…
The Most Successful Trojan Horse Since the Trojan War
…out-fiscal-regressive’d the Koch brothers’ candidates’ proposals, in order to fend off a threatened torrent of anti-Trump ads by a Koch-affiliated super PAC. Which he did. Trump’s intended audience, the Kochs,…
Oil and Gas Pipeline Construction vs. Massive Public Infrastructure Construction: Why do the Building Trades unions want the FORMER rather than the LATTER? I have no idea. [TITLE CORRECTED, 5/18 at 10:46 a.m.]
The AFL-CIO’s plans for a super PAC to take down Donald Trump ran into a big snag Monday, when one of the labor federation’s major affiliates objected to the involvement…
The Last (Wildlife) Refuge of a Scoundrel
…for Obama in 2012 was a series of ads run in the spring of that year by a sort-of-independent super PAC that educated the public about what Romney actually did…
Garbo—er, Clinton—talks! (Here’s what she should say.)
…super PACs whose sole purpose is to fund his candidacy, by explicitly soliciting policy advice from a handful of billionaire donors who support him—particularly hedge-fund guru Rebekah Mercer and her…
Okay, so today at a rally in suburban Detroit…
…that there are three billionaires who are writing extremely large checks to Trump’s super PAC, two—father-daughter hedge-fund duo Rebekah and Robert Mercer, and oil and gas billionaire Harold Hamm—who are…