New Gilded Age

Alexander Eichler

One Percenters' Income Skyrocketed In Last Three Decades

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Income Gap, Video, Income Inequality, Economy, We Are the 99 Percent, Occupy Wall Street, Mind the Gap, Great Divergence, Gilded Age, Economic Recovery, Wage Stagnation, New Gilded Age, Unions, Congressional Budget Office, Business News

WASHINGTON -- America's 99 percent are not just imagining it. The gap between the incomes of the rich and poor in this new Gilded Age is strikingly br...

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Back to the Gilded Age!

Warren Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Progressive Taxation, Supreme Court, 14th Amendment, Mass Movement, Free Speech, Antonin Scalia, Corporate Power, John Roberts, New Gilded Age, Clean Air Act, Corporate Speech, Minimum Wage, Banks, Gilded Age, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court Bush vs. Gore, Corporate Greed, Politics News
Warren Goldstein

A little over nine years ago (December 12, 2000) the conservative majority on the Supreme Court intervened in the disputed presidential election betwe...

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Russia's Oligarchs

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richest People, Russian Economy, Russia, New Jersey Nets, Russian Oligarchs, Slidehuge, Mikhail Prokhorov, Slidepoll, Financial Crisis, Oligarchs, New Gilded Age, Business News

The financial crisis dealt a blow to the upper crust of Russia's financial elite last year, diminishing the worth of the country's 10 richest tycoons ...

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McCain, Palin Rely on 19th Century Ideals

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Disparity of Wealth, John McCain, Dominionists, Robber Barrons, New Gilded Age, 19th Century Vision, Opportunity Society, Republican Revolution, Richard Herrnstein, Neocons, Charles Murray, Grover Norquist, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Middle Class Taxes, Politics of Race & Gender Inferiority, Social Darwinism, Biodeterminism, Council for National Policy, James Dobson, Religious Right, Christian Dominionists, Christian Mccain, Home News
Michele Swenson

The culture war waged by Republican revolutionaries is grounded in 19th century gender, race and class divisions, as well as nativism that perpetuated fear of immigrants and derided social justice movements.

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Top Gift For Uber-Wealthy? $30K Commissioned Biography

Wall Street Journal | Robert Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rich, Wealthy, Neiman Marcus, Billionaires, New Gilded Age, Wealth Gap, Expensive Gifts, Business News

With a record number of billionaires in the U.S., and even more consumers who want to spend like them, retailers are dreaming up ever-more-outrageous ...

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