Carl Bernstein gives "a purty long sarmon for a chap that rips a little now...
Earlier in the year, when the Jack Abramoff scandal was still in the news, Larry King interviewed those famous reporters that uncovered Watergate: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein.Here's Carl Bernstein:...
View ArticleI killed the Bank
When asked what his greatest accomplishment had been during his two terms as President, Andrew Jackson replied "I killed the Bank." He was talking about the "Second Bank of the United States", which...
View ArticleThe Man with the Axe (with Poll)
Several articles/editorials have been written lately in various places about the fact that we, the taxpayers, via our government, could be buying the businesses we are bailing out for less than we are...
View ArticleFollow-up on Bailout the People's March on Wall St Apr 3-4 (w/POLL)
I am writing to follow-up on Ministry of Truth's excellent diary on the Bailout the People Movement's March on Wall Street coming this April 3-4. Specifically, unless I'm missing something, it seems...
View ArticleIs it time for a 100% tax on estates, trusts, NO more taxes on the LIVING,...
We could THEN ELIMINATE TAXES ON THE LIVING too!The social contract would be renewed and we would see real stability, and a far greater incentive to save. Both young people and adults would get the...
View ArticleA Democratic Political Philosophy (Income Inequality Kos)
Welcome to Income Inequality Kos.Join us Thursdays, at 9:00 p.m. eastern. We discuss income inequality, concentration of wealth, and related issues.Guidelines for DiaristsDiaries come from the...
View ArticleCommunicating About Inequality (Income Inequality Kos)
Welcome to Income Inequality Kos.Join us Thursdays, at 9:00 p.m. eastern. We discuss income inequality, concentration of wealth, and related issues.Guidelines for DiaristsDiaries come from the...
View ArticleTeddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism Speech (Income Inequality Kos)
Welcome to Income Inequality Kos.Join us Thursdays, at 9:00 p.m. eastern. We discuss income inequality, concentration of wealth, and related issues.Guidelines for DiaristsDiaries come from the...
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Three Graphs Explain It All
This first graph backs up what we all know.We live in times of extreme political polarization. And the problem has been getting steadily worse. Our nation is deeply divided. Our nation is torn in...
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Concentration of Wealth and Defeating Extreme Conservatism
Ahem.Good afternoon Kossacks.We live in the time of the worst conservative extremism, ever, in all of U.S. history. There has never been anything like it.Extreme Republicanism will not be going...
View ArticleOur Wedge Issue (Income Inequality Kos)
Welcome to Income Inequality Kos.Join us Thursdays, at 9:00 p.m. eastern. We discuss income inequality, concentration of wealth, and related issues.Guidelines for DiaristsDiaries come from the...
View ArticleStriking It Richer (Income Inequality Kos)
Welcome to Income Inequality Kos.Join us Thursdays, at 9:00 p.m. eastern. We discuss income inequality, concentration of wealth, and related issues.Previous diaries in the series can be found by the...
View ArticleSome Narratives about Concentration of Wealth (Income Inequality Kos)
Welcome to Income Inequality Kos.Join us Thursdays, at 9:00 p.m. eastern. We discuss income inequality, concentration of wealth, and related issues.Previous diaries in the series can be found by the...
View ArticlePolitics and Concentration of Wealth (Income Inequality Kos)
Welcome to Income Inequality Kos.Join us Thursdays, at 9:00 p.m. eastern. We discuss income inequality, concentration of wealth, and related issues.Previous diaries in the series can be found by the...
View ArticleBlaming The Economy's Victims For Economic Crimes
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF.Blame the unions, blame the unemployed, blame loans to the poor, blame the...
View ArticleNine Pictures Of The Extreme Income/Wealth Gap
(Note, original is here .)Many people don't understand our country's problem of concentration of income and wealth because they don't see it. People just don't understand how much wealth there is at...
View ArticleQuestions for the Economists
I believe that the economy needs to be rethought. Right now we have the enough resources, both capital and labor, to produce enough goods and services to provide a middle class lifestyle to everyone...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich Is the Patron Saint of Matrimony Compared to Some CEOs
The Newt Gingrich presidential campaign probably is in need of a life preserver in the wake of reports that the candidate lied about key factors in his 1980 divorce. Well, I'm just the gal to give Newt...
View ArticleHow Truly Dangerous for the Court to Re-Affirm Citizens United: A Path to...
Whoever said "those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat" is of great importance here as I discuss the consequences of placing such a high level of protection for cash by equating it to...
View ArticleThis battle is about the size of government not deficits and debt says Robert...
In one of his best columns ever, Robert Reich cuts through a lot of bull-malarchy in The Ongoing War: After the Battle Over the Cliff, the Battle Over the Debt Ceiling, were he gets to the core issue...
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Climate change and concentration of wealth are our biggest economic problems...
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz counters those who suggest that we should put off dealing with climate change issues due to our escalating global economic problems by suggesting that climate change may...
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Koch Brothers' net worth tops $100 billion!
David De Jong, of Bloomberg.com announces the news that the Koch Brothers Net Worth Tops $100 Billion as TV Warfare Escalates."Spread the word! Billionaires of lessor means take heart. Hope exists that...
View ArticleEconomics of Diversion
In the important book by Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty First Century, it is pointed out that in the US, the great rise in economic inequality has a higher component of wage inequality than in...
View ArticleThomas Piketty's "Capital" summarized by The Economist in four paragraphs
The Economist exclaims best selling author Thomas Piketty’s “Capital”, summarised in four paragraphs. I distill his summary down by 60% in word count to three half paragraphs - pure economic's gold...
View ArticleNEWSFLASH: Mental Health Experts Warn of 'Emotional Toxicity' of Neoliberalism
Queued for cross-posting on caucus99percent.Neoliberalism, that buzzword--the definition of which is the source of many a misdirection and hi-jacking, the existence of which many kossacks will deny or...
View ArticleBernie Sanders: Agenda for America
Bernie Sanders has an Agenda for America.Bernie is not following in the wake of public opinion, which itself is following in the wake of social/human need. He is leading, because to people like Bernie,...
View ArticleBy Definition, Democratic Wing of the "D" Party is the one NOT PWNED by Wall St.
Point of clarification. We have two wings of the Party.The Democratic Wing AKA gate crashers Represented by Bernie Sanders Represents the people Democracy included Understands that democracy requires...
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