Should the Billionaire Club Start Paying Dues?
Austerity is spreading everywhere, but wealth, new data show, has become even more concentrated at the global economic summit. From Cairo to Palo Alto, even some conservatives are now talking...
From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
Austerity is spreading everywhere, but wealth, new data show, has become even more concentrated at the global economic summit. From Cairo to Palo Alto, even some conservatives are now talking...
The recession has been tough on many Americans. But the recession only started in 2008, and the statisticians at the National Bureau of Economic Research figure it ended in 2009. ...
Great economic cataclysms have in the past knocked the super rich off their stride. Our Great Recession's deep pockets, new income data show, are bucking the historical tide. We can...
Commentators still talk about the Great Recession as if we're still in it. But according to semi-official statistics from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) the recession ended in...
A tax-the-rich bombshell has dropped in the presidential race. The French presidential race. But this bombshell’s blast will almost certainly reverberate elsewhere. Maybe even in the United States. By Sam...
If a blunder you committed cost your employer $4 million, how long would you stay employed? In America today, a CEO can cost his company $4 billion and still collect...
President Obama has opened an election-year debate on corporate taxation with his proposal to reduce the headline corporate income tax rate from 35% to 28%. His idea is to give...
The new Obama White House federal budget for 2013 advances a vision for a significantly more progressive tax code. But that vision, if realized, would still not restore all the...
Lawmakers make laws. They don't enforce them. Corporate America understands that difference — and exploits it. The latest case in point: the battle over outrageous CEO pay. Towers Watson, the...
Congress is set to extend the 2011 Social Security tax reduction to the end of 2012. Three cheers for that. Social Security taxes are some of the most unfair in...