Economy
A New Spin from the Inequality Denialist Set
A key keeper of the market fundamentalist flame, the Heritage Foundation's Stephen Moore, wants us to know that all his rich and powerful red-state pals really do care about income maldistribution.
8 Reasons Some CEOs Make 331 Times As Much As Their Employees
Massive income inequality is not new. Yet there are still conservative myths floating around about why it is and what we can do. Here are a few of the real reasons ordinary Americans languish economically.
Private Wealth, Public Squalor: America's Dilemma
America is plagued by too much public squalor and too much private wealth. Partisan obstruction blocks even modest reform. Americans will continue to struggle until they force a new politics.
Will We Let Congress Hand Billion$ More To Big Corporations?
Corporations currently owe up to $700 billion in unpaid, “deferred” taxes. Congress can make them pay, or let them off the hook. Guess which choice Congress is about to make.
The Many Pipelines That Pump Our Wealth Up
Wage squeezes, share buybacks, and tax subsidies, three new progressive think tank studies show, are all combining to keep America's high and mighty ever higher and mightier.
How a Lack of Power and Guns Go Together
Until the economy gets better, people will hold up their guns as a way to feel powerful in a society that renders them powerless. This is just a fact. That’s why it's time to turn our back on the 33-year experiment of Reaganomics.
Thomas Piketty And Elizabeth Warren On How To Fight Income Inequality
Thomas Pickety and Sen. Elizabeth Warren discuss why it is that the rich are getting richer, and everybody else is getting poorer, and most importantly, what we can do to fight it.
A New Front in the CEO Pay Wars
Almost every day, the headlines remind us how outrageous CEO pay in America has become. Will these outrages ever end? Congress give us no cause for optimism. But at the state level we actually may be in for a pleasant political surprise.
Cut-Throat Capitalism: Welcome To the Gig Economy
The media use exciting words like "creativity" and "adaptability" to describe the shift away from steady, full-time work to a gig economy of freelancers and short-term contracts. But it looks quite different, if you're actually stuck in it.
How Campus Chiefs Ace Executive Excess 101
Amid all the financial squeezing at state universities, a new study shows that the more students lose out and faculty feel chronically frustrated, the grander the rewards university presidents reap.
