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For the World's Wealthy, A Setback Most Slight
The global economic collapse, says the first in-depth survey of grand fortune since last September, has left the world's wealth just as intensely concentrated as ever. Thirteen years ago, two firms that manage the wealth of the world’s wealthy — New...
2044: The Novel Comes True
Remember a while ago I wrote about my new novel, 2044? 2044 starts where George Orwell’s 1984 left off. The problem isn’t Big Brother and the leviathan government. The problem is Big Brother Inc., and the all-powerful marketplace. The 2044 story is about water. Giant...
Working America Rallies Behind Climate Bill
It took a very long time to end the fallacy that you can't protect the environment and grow the economy at the same time. But that day has come. The nail in the coffin of the canard was delivered this week, as both the AFL-CIO and United Steelworkers formally endorsed...
End Health Disparities With Health Care For All
The debate over health care reform has taken a particularly worrisome turn. Suddenly we're in a place where passing something kind of like reform may be more important than getting to reform itself. In the name of "compromise" and in interest of getting...
Progressive Breakfast: Climate Bill In The House
Climate Vote Expected Today in House Politico on the head count: "By late Thursday, aides and lawmakers said Democrats were within a dozen of the 218 votes needed to pass the legislation. Democratic sources said their leaders aimed to lock in 230 yes votes — and...
Downsizing for Fun, Profit, and Chaos
Behind every defective U.S. private enterprise, suggests a surprising new report from inside Corporate America, sits a top executive effective at grabbing for windfalls. Corporate takeover deals that pay off big — for executives — typically follow a...
'Incomes Surge'? Furloughs Tell A Different Story
I suspected there was something being left unsaid when the headlines began streaming this morning that personal incomes in May surged 1.4 percent. And, indeed, there was. It is in the actual press release issued by the Commerce Department Bureau of Economic Analysis,...
Progressive Breakfast: Public Plan Compromise?
Can There Be Effective Health Care Compromise? Baucus and Conrad telling Bloomberg that WH wants them to compromise with GOP: "White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel met last night at the U.S. Capitol with Senate Democrats and told them Obama is 'open to...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/26/2009
Climate Vote Expected Today in House Politico on the head count: "By late Thursday, aides and lawmakers said Democrats were within a dozen of the 218 votes needed to pass the legislation. Democratic sources said their leaders aimed to lock in 230 yes votes — and...
Progressive Breakfast: Health Care Reform Hits the Road
Health Care Reform Hits the Road The health care reform battle is heating up on several fronts. While the president takes his reform message the people, the volunteers who powered his campaign are listening to Americans and gathering their stories. USAToday:...
