Can we avoid the disaster of climate change? Can we reach a carbon-free future? Not as long as the richest among us continue to harbor delusions about their capacity to survive any catastrophe that might befall the rest of us.
The Biden administration is working to undo contracting policy holdovers from the the Reagan administration in order to boost public investment benefits for workers and their communities.
Payday lending is inherently predatory and private equity is turbocharging its abuses, enlarging the burden it places on low-income individuals and borrowers of color.
Attacking inflation by hiking interest rates is not addressing the real situation and cause. We should be hiking tax rates on corporations engaged in price gouging and profiteering.
The United States sits in a wealth class all its own, boasting 39.2 percent of the world’s millionaires. China sits second, at 9.9 percent, with Japan third at 5.4 percent.
Happy tax times — for the rich — don’t come carved in stone. Tax laws can and do change. Public anger can increase the tax-auditing pressure on grand private fortunes.