…United States. “How the world’s super-rich are rewriting the rules,” Bangkok Post Ongoing efforts to derail multilateral tax cooperation lie at the heart of a global program to replace democratic…

…shift existed years before. Perhaps, it became more prominent now? There has always been a suspicion of bias. ~~~~~~~ “Supreme Court’s major shift towards the rich mapped out by experts,”…

…It makes no sense to define socialism as state control of the means of production. That would imply that all absolute monarchs are socialists. One can define something as democratic…

…this.) Economists: Define Your Terms The biggest takeaway from all this is economists’ need to precisely define their terms, in accounting terms — something they’ve been abysmal at. Dumpster fire?…

…and the terms defined based on those structures, made it impossible to even think coherently about some fundamental economic measures. Wealth, for instance. National wealth is, after all, a rather…

Are we Democrats being dishonest about the Bush-Pozen Social Security plan? The latest NRO column from Rich Lowry drew fire from Max Sawicky and Matthew Yglesias. Matthew points out how…

…by changing it from “worker pays” to “the rich pay,” will in the first place not be accepted by those rich who have the political power in this country, and…

…game,” concentration of wealth creates perverse incentives that ensure most of the mega rich are terrible citizens: The very rich on today’s Wall Street are now so rich that they…

…taxes, but if you are poor and live where there aren’t enough poor people, tough luck) shifts the burden from rich to poor since the rich will only pay on…

…system redistributes income from the rich to the non-rich. The tax system redistributes income from the rich and the non-rich to the public sector. To assess redistribution from the rich…