"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Beverly Gage, associate professor of 20th-century U.S. history at Yale University, has a fascinating post at Slate about the Commission on Industrial Relations created by President William Howard Taft in 1912 near the end of his term to address the growing fears of a…
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism reports her well-connected, wealthy friends are getting twitchy about what they see coming. She doesn’t necessarily agree that major upheaval is coming but found it instructive that some NYC elites are now speaking in these…
John Robb on the Citibank Plutonomy memo referenced in Capitalism: A Love Story Citibank report. In short, the idea is that globalization will continue to accelerate income concentration at the expense of the bottom 90% of the population in developed…