Move Over, Climate Change Deniers

Make room for a new right-wing assault on scientific research. In the cross-hairs this time: the massive epidemiological evidence on inequality’s horrific toll on our health and overall well-being. Read more . . .

They Get Rich, We Get Ho-Hum Gadgets

Our economy would become the world’s most innovative, our elites have assured us over the past 30 years, if we gave our rich enough incentives to innovate. We kept to our end of the bargain. So where’s the innovation?

‘Overtaxation’: Our Phoniest Problem?

Friends of the financially fortunate are trying to turn reality upside-down — and save our undertaxed rich mega billions in the process.

Washington and Wall Street: A ‘Democracy’ in Denial

Some Americans get all bent out of shape when they hear someone label the United States a ‘plutocracy.’ But if we have an honest-to-goodness democracy, where the people really rule, then how can we explain Goldman Sachs?

The ‘Party of No’ May Now Rate a New Label

Republicans in Congress have introduced a breathtaking new budget plan that would essentially put America’s plutocracy on steroids.

Wall Street’s Protection Racket: Still Rolling

To really reform big bank behavior, we need to scuttle the pay system that ‘entitles’ Wall Streeters to however much loot they can grab.

Did the Founders Want Government Small?

The new conservative ‘Mount Vernon Statement’ unveiled last week claims that right-wingers are upholding what the Generation of 1776 held dear. But those right-wingers, history shows, are conveniently overlooking what the Founders truly feared. A review of Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution 1765-1900 by James Huston.

Must the Rich Rock On Forever?

Economists tend to add more to the aggravations of everyday life than explain them. Not this economist. A review of Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal by Moshe Adler.

Wall Street's Favorite Meltdown Myth Bites the Dust

But Wall Street’s mainstream critics still can’t bring themselves to challenge the top executive ‘right’ to reap enormous riches.

What Ever Happened to That Prosperity the Tax-Cutters Promised?

Don’t expect an answer from the ranters and ravers who frequent ‘Tea Parties’ — or the politicians who egg them on.