European Progress Toward a Financial Transactions Tax
Germany's major political parties have agreed on the need to impose a financial transactions tax (FTT) as part of a broad package of economic reforms to be undertaken by a...
International
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.
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...
The 99 Percent Spring
The people aren't powerless in the face of extreme inequality. In the coming weeks, millions of Americans will take to the streets as part of the "99 percent spring," echoing...
Swedes and Suicide: A Fresh Perspective
Why do Swedes and citizens of other relatively equal nations take their lives at a higher rate than residents of more unequal nations? Four investigators have tapped a wealth of...
A New Inequality Emphasis from the UN
Over the past 20 years, the UN Human Development Report — an effort to compare the world's nations not just on economic growth, but health and education as well —...