Here’s What Democracy, Economically, Looks Like
The global media spotlight may be gone, but Egypt's revolutionaries are still making history, with a spirited campaign for a 'maximum wage.' The global press corps is no longer hanging...
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Remembering a Patriot Not Yet in the Pantheon
A decade into a staggeringly unequal 21st century United States, historians have rediscovered a long-forgotten Revolutionary War hero who stirred men’s souls with a remarkably far-sighted egalitarian vision. George Washington....
Our ‘Double Bubble’ of Economic Trouble
'Asset bubbles' have been roiling our economy ever since America's wealthy started supersizing three decades ago. But another bubble, this one enveloping those wealthy, may be just as essential to...
The Global Debt? Give the Big Boys the Bill
The world's ultra rich, those 103,000 deep pockets with at least $30 million to invest, could afford to pay off the entire national debt of the world's biggest deadbeat nations...
Gap Be Gone: A Locality Takes on Inequality
Amid fierce fiscal austerity, a borough in London is doing battle to level up the poor and level down the rich. Imagine if a borough in New York tried something...
Don’t Worry, Be Happy, Be More Equal
If we grow apart as we grow economically, new research suggests, we will never grow happier.
CEOs with ‘Lucky’ CEO Buddies Make More
So much for 'pay for performance': New research from Harvard shows that 'peer networks' at the corporate summit significantly escalate executive compensation.
Tim Pawlenty’s Dippy Dive into ‘Deep Doo-Doo’
A top 2012 GOP candidate says the tax cuts for the rich he's proposing will expand America's 'entrepreneurial' class. What does history say? Last week, in a “major policy address,”...
Ten Years After Bush Tax Cuts, Pawlenty Offers Reckless Plan
10 years on, the Bush tax cuts are a disaster—and we're contemplating more tax breaks for the wealthy. How can we stop the madness? GOP candidate Tim Pawlenty observed the...
A Call from Labor: Ban Big Bank Stock Options
Federal agencies are now preparing new regulations for enforcing the banker pay reforms enacted last summer. These new regs, says the AFL-CIO, need to prohibit the 'incentive' that's still stuffing...
A Decade of Magical Tax Cut Thinking
The 2001 Bush tax cuts added $2.5 trillion to the national debt and disproportionately benefited the wealthiest households. Have we learned anything? Republican leaders in Congress have a one-point program...
The Global Millionaire Roll Showing No Slowing
From a top financial analyst group, more evidence that the human race has never been richer. So why are governments forcing austerity on so many of the world's peoples? “2010...