…energetic than in the first debate. While I don’t think he has been a great president, he has nonetheless acted on a number of matters in ways that move us…

…to look at that graph and see anything unusual about the 2008-2012 region, other than the depth of the trough shortly after the Great Recession. It appeared to me that…

…bears this out: at least in prosperous countries, greater wealth equality correlates with greater long-term prosperity. For those who care to hear a personal account of how modest, widespread wealth…

…passed…..That’s what Romney endorsed….THAT’s the GOP plan… It’ll save businesses money, and it’s great for corporate America. However, it is not so great for the average small family living on…

…extraordinarily concentrated among the super-rich, the top one percent of the top one percent. So while the Great Depression acted as a leveler, the cascading impact of tax and other…

…us that Obama has won a great victory by getting the Republicans to extend the payroll tax cut; SS “will be made whole from transfers from general government revenues. So…

…livlihoods of ordinary Americans in order to reap an even greater share of GDP (and keep all the gains to themselves rather than sharing them with labor), that is a…

…look at the record. Here’s a longer-term view of nominal debt, zoomed in on successive times slices so you can see the changes: Do you notice our progenitors’ great-great-grandchildren (us)…

…the Great Depression and President Clinton’s signing of the Gramm Bliley Act on November 12, 1999 that deregulated much of banking: The Feds should start enforcing the laws already on…

…books the Little and Great Domesday which rather miraculously survived down to our time and represent the oldest public record of England. The entire text is now available online as…