The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
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The Time For A New Economics Is At Hand
Just as Occupy Wall Street aimed at exposing the failures of the financial industry, the kick-it-over campaign aims to expose the failures of the economics profession.
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Can Rock-Star Economist Thomas Piketty Re-Write the American Dream?
The unlikely bestseller has roiled pundits and crystallized a conversation about inequality we should have had long ago. Now he has to win over normal people.
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Dashing Toward Oligarchy, Government Is Now a Protection Racket For the 1%
A new report shows that top C.E.O.'s were paid 331 times more than the average U.S. worker in 2013, and the poorest fifth of Americans paid twice the average tax rate as the richest 1%.
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Krugman: What the 1% Doesn't Want You to Know
The Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman explains how the U.S. is becoming an oligarchy.
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Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty, Architects of Austerity
From Jean-Claude Trichet and Mario Draghi to Jaime Caruana and Kenneth Rogoff, proponents of austerity politics run in some of the world's elite circles where they have pushed illogical and unsuccessful economics to its inevitable conclusion.
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Corporate Gold on the Fiscal Cliff
Big money buys big influence, which is why the financiers of Wall Street never truly experience regime change.
