…one person in power and then their denying of it. Doers and takers who claim no responsibility. Political Styles of the Rich and Clueless – Paul Krugman As we wait…

…To finance another giant tax cut for the rich, along with 10,000 more ICE agents and a gulag of detention camps. I’d like to believe that this worsening catastrophe may…

…via taxes. There are plenty of examples of rich countries with capitalist markets and good social outcomes: The Nordics and Switzerland are obvious, most of the EU and rich Asia…

…looking at your 401(k). The rich own half of all corporate stock. When the market goes up, they get richer compared to everyone else. That is definitional. For progressives to…

…Obama seemed ready to trade off changes in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits for higher taxes on the very richest of the rich in August of 2011, he will…

…preserve their profits? Is there a moral difference from someone who becomes rich by creating a “better mousetrap” (e.g. a way to charge an electric car in 5 minutes and…

…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…

…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…

…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…

…the poorest beneficiaries, while he wants to raise taxes on the rich to expand it in ways that could add $65 per month to the average benefit. This, like most…