Watching Davos is enough to make many buy pitchfork futures or push for a wealth tax. But there are better ways to skin fat cats.
Read more...Eric Laursen, author of The People’s Pension, explains the campaign of sneak attacks and misinformation against Social Security.
Read more...Yes, Virginia, ultra-processed food is a health hazard. But what to do?
Read more...The green energy transition, which truth be told has not gotten very far, is already hitting a wall.
Read more...Ukraine’s local authorities are undes serious budget stress despite government assurances of support
Read more...Tax breaks to the rich mean less revenue, higher deficits, and more calls to gut programs like Social Security that protect ordinary citizens
Read more...After long resistance by rich nations, African governments successfully pushed for the UN to lead on international tax cooperation.
Read more...Why a wealth tax is not only no magic bullet, but also not likely to work very well.
Read more...Hunter Biden seems to have quite the affinity for hot water. Judge Noreika has sent his irregular plea deal back to the drawing board.
Read more...Shed a crocodile tear. Former private equity kingpin Leon Black is back in hot water thanks to his dealings with child rapist Jeffrey Epstein
Read more...And why finding reforms to our current economic system is a Sisyphean task.
Read more...A state court, citing “eye-popping” executive compensation, strikes down a hospital’s property tax break and strikes fear into the nonprofit hospital industry across the US.
Read more...A shaggy dog story on trying to get the IRS to accept cash….
Read more...The Biden Administration has yet to take comparatively easy steps to reduce medical debt abuses.
Read more...The point of the debt ceiling melodrama is to give fiscal hawks another whack at budget-cutting. Tax increase are therefore off the table.
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