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Bush Tax Cuts Have Delivered $1 Million in Tax Breaks to the Average Millionaire
The Bush tax cuts delivered the weakest job growth of the post-war period.
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The Rich: Once We “Clawed Back” Them All
The movers and shakers of scandal-ridden Wall Street are busy scapegoating a
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Six Things You Should Know About the $21 Trillion the World’s Richest People Are Hiding in Tax Shelters
A new report from the Tax Justice Network found trillions of untaxed wealth that the world's richest people are hiding.
Spain Is Being Asked to Adopt Socially Burdensome and Economically Ineffective Measures
Spainu2019s problem is a general European problem. In 2010, it was running a high public deficit: at 9.3% of GDP, theyu2019re being asked to undertake the challenging task of …
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A Wall Street Devil Gets Religion … and an Apt Epitaph
Hallelujah and Holy Smokes! Wall Street has had a
A Democratic Country Should Put Public Education Before Corporate Profits
Schools are closing. Teachers are being laid off. State and local governments are cutting like crazy and Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has released a report warning about the looming …
How the European Central Bank Came to Control the Fate of the World Economy
The ECB has the power to end the eurozone crisis. But it refuses to do so, in order to push a regressive political agenda.
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Correctional Corporation of America Accreditation Report Misses Stark Reality
But below the spin is a different reality for the company and the prisoners that it oversees - food riots and abuse scandals.
Is the Washington Post Being Asset-Stripped?
While the company has been bleeding revenue and income in the last year-plus, it has actually been increasing the amount of cash it pays out in dividends.
Nuclear Strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction Ignores Human Fallibility, Accident Risk
A prominent proponent of MAD puts his faith in nuclear deterrence, justifying his position in historical terms.