What’s the Cost of High Living?
Uber-rich are clueless about the gross inequality their financial schemes are creating, and we pay the cost of their high living. The high living rich aren’t merely different … Read more
economy
Front-Porch Politics: Everyone Wants Populist Reforms
A People’s Action report highlights universal desire for real populist reform. If you despair that a mysterious plague of incurable political knuckleheadism has swept our country, turning previously … Read more
Why Are Republicans So Quiet About Their Chief Economic Accomplishment?
There’s an eerie silence from Trumpeteers about their trillion-dollar tax giveaway to corporate elites. Listen … Can you hear it? Listen to the eerie “sound of silence” from … Read more
Tracking Trump’s Convoluted Immigration Policy
America’s historically open immigration policy has produced many greats, and a few less-than-stellar citizens. Racially and ethnically speaking, I’m not sure who I am: Irish, Black, Anglo, Native … Read more
We Want Your House
Hi! We love your house and want to be its next owners! We’re the couple that came in five minutes before your open house ended, trailing three adorable … Read more
Gentrification Begets Gentrification
Gentrification is a function of power, not economic inevitability. Gentrification is a function of power, not natural law or economic inevitability. It occurs when wealthy, politically connected interests … Read more
Will You Win the ‘Throw Your Money at Amazon’ Sweepstakes?
How much are you paying Amazon? No, not how much did you spend online… How much are you paying Amazon? I don’t mean how much you’re shelling out … Read more
Celebrating Labor Day
As we observe Labor Day, let us remember the economy is not working for the laborers (white and blue collar) of America. Workers of America, rejoice! As our … Read more
Monopoly or Democracy? You Can’t Have Both
Lovers of monopoly are waging all out corporate class war on American people — and they’re winning. America’s political history has been written in the fierce narrative of … Read more
A Wall Street Sin Tax
One way to restore some fiscal sanity is a “Wall Street Sin Tax.” The moneyed populace is adroit at getting Congress to shift America’s tax burden to workers, … Read more
