To End Extreme Poverty, Let’s Try Ending Extreme Wealth
The world’s wealthy gathered in the Alps last week to discuss how to ‘solve’ our world’s toughest problems. The biggest? That, suggests one anti-poverty outfit, may be their fortunes.
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Class Warfare in Greece
The right wing in America and abroad never tires of trotting out the accusation of "class warfare" anytime anyone tries to raise taxes on the rich -- or even tries...
The Greek Crisis: One Question, Four Answers
The debt crisis in Greece has any number of solutions. One has the rich of Greece all agog with fond expectations. By Salvatore Babones The big debate in Europe today...
Facebook and Tahrir Square, Revisited
Facebook's initial public offering last week 'offered' the world another double dose of windfalls and greed. But Egypt's elections this week may bring an IPO of a different sort, the...