With the centennial of our 40th President’s birth now upon us, how about a shout-out for the soak-the-rich tax rates that he so despised — and more civic-minded Hollywood stars so enthusiastically embraced.
To overcome the global economic meltdown all around us, this British economist reminds us, we need to go back to the future — back to becoming a society that values greater equality. A review of Super Rich: The Rise of Inequality in Britain and the United States by George Irvin.
Behind the financial industry meltdown: years of steadily increasing economic inequality.
No two-bit burglars could have possibly pulled this enormous job off. Making America staggeringly unequal took the coordinated effort of an entire corporate elite. A review of The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression, by Michael Perelman.