Steve Rattner Explains Your Life’s Purpose for You
Wall Street plutocrats like Steve Rattner feel free to chastise you for your lack of hustle on the job. Do you find it as charming as I do … Read more
Wall Street
Why Are We Letting For-Profit Health Care Kill Us?
For-profit health care is literally killing us. Don’t take my word for it, ask a nurse! No one needs another outrage to worry about, but here’s one that … Read more
How Inequality Happens
One reason these Wall Street types make so much is that theirs is a dirty job — they are why inequality happens. I don’t usually cover hard-luck sob … Read more
Why Would We Let Wall Street ‘Care For’ Our Pets?
We form deep relationships with our pets, critters who at least pretend to love us back, providing comfort and joy all around. For many people, the animals they … Read more
Real Journalism? The Oracle Speaks
Despite what the “Oracle” Warren Buffett says, keeping citizens informed and engaged is what real journalism is all about. Playing the billionaires’ news game, mega-investor Warren Buffett once … Read more
What’s Happening to Journalism in the USA?
Alden Global Capital is killing journalism and the newsroom. If Hollywood wanted to make a gritty movie about the work of dig-it-out newspaper reporters who uncover big local … Read more
The Grand Larceny of Bank(er) Robbery
Wall Street bankers are committing grand larceny and are the biggest robbers in America. Exciting news from Wall Street: Our wealth markets are booming! For the 15th month … Read more
This is Your Brain on Aphorisms: Wall Street Bullishit!
Wall Street is full of bullishit! Minimum wages war on the poor. As the rich get richer, the middle-class becomes more and more poor-us. Ted “Yes I Cancun” … Read more
We Can Push Biden for Fundamental Change
We’ve now got a real possibility of winning some progressive policies leading to fundamental change. We’ve put Joe Biden in the White House … but what do we … Read more
The Dow Jones v. the Doug Jones
Forget the Dow Jones Industrial Average; we need policymakers who give a damn about the Doug Jones Average. Wow, how about that Dow? The Dow Jones Industrial Average, … Read more
