…to the soaring oil price, they had the power to allot contracts that were worth many millions of dollars to a shrewd oil trader… While the US had introduced anti-corruption…

…national resources with a speed and energy that is far superior to any other branch.” It is worth emphasizing here that No. 70 is not really about the separation of…

…data The concentration of wealth reflected in the latest numbers is breathtaking. The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is now worth over $700 billion, or more than the entire Forbes…

…government signed cost-plus construction contracts for dam ballast with contractors who then brought dump truck loads of machined bolts and nuts, because — ten-percent of $100 worth of rocks is…

…more buildings and less empty land means more places to live and thus lower rental (or purchase) costs. It’s worth mentioning that we see the opposite with mortgage interest tax…

…along partisan lines. A majority of voters who backed Trump in 2024 — 57 percent — say risks to the lives of anti-ICE protestors are a price worth paying to…

…it had been worth just a few years earlier. The PE giant has continued the blood letting. The reason was not some sort of internet-disruption, since it’s a regulated business…

…to more effectively tax ultra-high-net-worth individuals, a proposed 2% minimum wealth tax, legislative action in California, Washington state, and New York, and an international coalition led by Spain and Brazil….

US Household wealth regains pre-recession peak! crows this story. Steve Roth‘s chart to 2010 from Asynptosis demonstrates the drop in net worth for most of us. pgl at Econospeak adds…

…which is not attached to a story, best as I can tell, but instead simply links to the Wall Street Journal news report about Obama’s tax return, reads, “Obama only…