The Age of the Oligarchs
The chaos in Ukraine can be viewed, in part, as what happens when a collection of “oligarchs” – sometimes competing,...
The chaos in Ukraine can be viewed, in part, as what happens when a collection of “oligarchs” – sometimes competing,...
Tuesday on his show “Off the Grid,” former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura “called bullsh*t” on the “one percent” who are...
As a result of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, billionaires and large corporations can now spend an unlimited...
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
Most people know about income inequality: the gap in earnings between the 1 percent and the rest of us that...
WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars in U.S. taxes are going unpaid because Americans are exploiting Swiss bank accounts, and the...
An expensive tax break intended to make more Americans homeowners is instead making American homes bigger without benefiting non-rich people,...
A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S....
Billionaire oilman David Koch used to joke that Koch Industries was “the biggest company you’ve never heard of.” Now the...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked Thursday whether the U.S. was evolving into an oligarchy during a speech on the Senate...
People like Sheldon Adelson support candidates who are in favor of lowering tax rates for corporations and the super-wealthy —...
When organized interest groups or economic elites want a particular policy passed, there’s a strongly likelihood their wishes will come...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) accused the Koch brothers of “trying to buy America”.
A new pair of reports suggests that the super rich are richer than we thought.
A Delaware man convicted of raping his three-year-old daughter only faced probation after a state Superior Court judge ruled he...
Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson told a crowd at Yeshiva University in New York on Tuesday that the only proper negotiating...
Yes, there are “takers” in the American economy, but they’re not the poor folks Mitt Romney referenced in his now-infamous...
There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who...
Does being super-wealthy make you extra susceptible to self-pity today? That’s the only conclusion we can draw from an epidemic...