Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”
We feature our April 2014 interview with Matt Taibbi about his book, “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 15, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
We feature our April 2014 interview with Matt Taibbi about his book, “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of...
Every August, for most of the last four decades, top central bankers from around the world have been making their...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Economists have long argued that a rising wealth gap has complicated the U.S. rebound from the Great...
The Commerce Department released some revised figures on America’s economy last week. Previous numbers, Commerce researchers noted, had overestimated the...
Inequality / Politics / Wall Street
by onepercenttakers · Published May 19, 2014 · Last modified September 2, 2014
His relentless coverage of Wall Street malfeasance turned him into one of the most influential journalists of his generation, but...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 14, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
Inequality / Richest One Percent / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Most people know about income inequality: the gap in earnings between the 1 percent and the rest of us that...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.