"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
The federal pay czar recently said he would cut AIG execs salaries. The execs whined, saying they would quit. You guessed it. The pay czar then showed the spine of a jellyfish, meekly backed down, and exempted them from pay…
WSJ says maybe it wasn’t Russian hackers, as one theory has it, but rather a result of Freedom of Information requests. Someone inside East Anglia found the docs and deliberately released them into the wild. The documents show EAU scientists…
According to top experts, risky derivatives were not only largely responsible for bringing down the American (and world) economy, but they still pose a substantial systemic risk. Now, Bloomberg notes that the carbon trading scheme will be largely centered around…
In 2003 Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is over 10 times that figure. So what’s behind the ballooning dollar signs? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda…
Marc Cooper We can’t fight a couple of wars, not raise taxes AND deploy any meaningful domestic programs that will get 15% of the population back to steady work and 25% of our kids off of food stamps. We can’t…