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Corporate Governance and CEO Pay: The Cesspool at the Top
Dean Baker: The high pay for those at the top does not come out of the air; it comes from everyone else's paycheck.
The Propaganda System That Has Helped Create a Permanent Overclass Is Over a Century in the Making
Pulling back the curtain on how intent the wealthiest Americans have been on establishing a propaganda tool to subvert democracy.
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We Are All Ideological Now (and Always Have Been)
Media expert Robert Jensen: None of us can entirely escape ideology, so it's up to us to acknowledge and challenge our own ideological biases.
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Remaking the Federal Reserve, Building Public Banks and Opting Out of Wall Street
Can the Federal Reserve be remade into a transparent, democratic institution?
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At Bat
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Path to Citizenship
Copyright Universal UClick.
How Much Unemployment Did Reinhart and Rogoff’s Arithmetic Mistake Cause?
That's the question millions will be asking when they see the new paper by my friends at the University of Massachusetts, Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Congress Repeals the STOCK Act, and More
As many Americans were occupied putting the final touches on their taxes, Congress repealed the legislation that required our leaders to disclose information about their stock trades online.
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On Friday, Kill the #ChainedCPI Cut to Social Security & Veterans’ Benefits
We don't always have a clean shot at the 1 percent, but there is broad public consensus on this issue across many ideological and class lines.
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Boston: The 27th Mile
Itu2019s hard to think about tax policy or cost-of-living calculations for Social Security when death is in the news, when the grim horror of it hangs in the air …