…DSGE (acronyms explained below). Neither was paid for by firms or rich individuals. First the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH) which holds that all assets always sell for the same price…

…increases in the taxes of the ultra rich who have greedily sucked up all the juice in the economy for forty years. We won’t. Readers may think this blog has…

by Linda Beale Why we don’t need corporate tax “overhaul” GOP poormouthing on behalf of rich corporate allies(Part I in a series) These days, one hears a great deal from…

…proposal. Another year of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers in the richest 1% would give them an average tax cut of about $71,000. See Citizens for Tax…

…accounts for 5 percent of total wealth, produced capital for 18 percent, and intangible capital 77 percent.” You know what that is? Democratic traditional spending priorities. “Rich countries are largely…

…cuts for higher taxes on the rich. But higher taxes on the rich are completely verboten in the GOP. And so their strategy is to force Democratic presidents to sign…

…U.S. accounted for half of all job losses among the 31 richest countries from 2007 to mid-2010. (2) The rise of U.S. unemployment greatly exceeded the fall in economic output….

…medicare requirements. But if you talk about taxing the rich, the response is always that this will “kill competitiveness” and “make the country poorer because there will be less investment.”…

…Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Income Gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More than Tripled in the last three decades, new data show,June 25, 2010, hat tip Tax…

…needed to create a national tax structure that actually is progressive above $60 or $80K a year in income. Us rich folks aren’t paying nearly our share of the bill…