…CEOs Rich (levernews.com), Wendell Potter Health insurance companies are on a spending spree buying back shares of their own stock. An illegal gimmick until a few years ago. It has…

…the rich don’t get most of their wealth from salaries. I assume that the (bogus) Laffer curve incorporates all forms of taxation, but who knows? Higher taxes for the rich…

…work and live on Social Security monthly payments in retirement. Another solution to the Social Security short fall by a good person. Wyden Says Trillions in Taxes Dodged by Ultra-Rich…

Which of Piketty’s “Rich Get Richer” Theories Matters More? – by Steve Roth Wealth Economics For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance;…

…be able to address the problem. I would also propose, as does the NYT boomer blaming piece, an apology from the rich. But as the old saying goes, being rich…

…based on “trickle down” economics–the view that if the rich get richer, everybody else will do well too. But that hasn’t been the case. Since 1980, the rich have gotten…

…Presidents?”) stipulates without caveat to this Blinder-Watson statement: The superiority of economic performance under Democrats rather than Republicans is nearly ubiquitous; it holds almost regardless of how you define success….

…rich richer and forget the rest” crowd.  That crowd that claims that we need a capital gains preference so the rich can gather all that extra money to purportedly create…

I’ve long been troubled by a Paul Krugman comment from 2008: There’s no obvious reason why consumer demand can’t be sustained by the spending of the upper class — $200…

…that growth has declined since Reagan took office. This argument ignores the boom and surplus under Clinton, of course (of course that boom was attributable to New Gingrich), but besides…