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Paul Szep | Posted 05.29.2012

Paul Szep

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Why Are There So Few Latino Libertarians?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.29.2012

Daniel Cubias

Of course, there are Latino libertarians out there. But in general, talking Hispanics into espousing the Ron Paul agenda is only slightly easier than getting the pope to show up at the Stonewall Inn for a drink.

Here's What The One Percent Throw Their Money Away On Now

The New York Times | Paul Sullivan | Posted 05.27.2012

If there is one investment that has more to do with the heart than the head, it’s vineyards. It is also one that lends itself to jokes whose punch l...

Here's How Long It Would Take You To Earn A Top CEO Salary

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2012

WASHINGTON -- David Simon of Simon Property received a pay package worth more than $137 million for last year, and the typical CEO took home $9.6 mill...

Obama Has to Explain Why Fairness Is Essential to Growth (and Why Some Democrats Have to Stop Believing Otherwise)

Robert Reich | Posted 05.24.2012

Robert Reich

Mitt Romney epitomizes the unfairness of the American economy in this new Gilded Age. For that same reason, Romney is the quintessence of an economic approach shown to be anti-growth and anti-jobs. The president needs to tell this to the American people.

Anarchists, Cops, the Super Rich -- It's New York 100 Years Ago

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.22.2012

Rick Ayers

In More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, many will find parallels to the current social crises, from the upheavals of Occupy Wall Street to the manipulations of the super rich.

Should the Super Rich Be Richer?

Rui Dai | Posted 05.17.2012

Rui Dai

In the past few days, this fight was just sparked in a very interesting direction by TED censoring one of its own talks about U.S. inequality and publicity for the soon-to-be-published book by Edward Conrad.

Politicians Are Making Florida Good for Business But Bad for Floridians

Jose Suarez | Posted 05.11.2012

Jose Suarez

Why isn't the so-called "well being" in Florida trickling down? Probably, because our politicians stopped working for us a long time ago.

We All Do Better When We All Do Better

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.03.2012

Stan Sorscher

Lately, the public mood has gone the opposite way. Simply put, we are told that we will all do better when most of us do worse.

Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games: Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty, and Freaky Weather Into the Arena

Rebecca Solnit | Posted 05.01.2012

Rebecca Solnit

Collins's timely trilogy makes it clear that the 1%, having created a system of deeply embedded cruelty, should go, something highlighted by the surly defiance of heroine Katniss Everdeen who refuses to be disposed of.

Time for a 99 Percent Tax Revolt

Elizabeth Parisian | Posted 04.16.2012

Elizabeth Parisian

For the 99 percent of Americans who don't use lobbyists to bend the tax rules, Tax Day is a day for reflecting on why we pay taxes.

Obama vs. Romney: Class Warfare

Bob Burnett | Posted 04.13.2012

Bob Burnett

Understanding Romney's perspective helps crack his campaign code. When Romney says Obama made the economic crisis worse, he means Obama did not follow Republican advice and do nothing; Obama did not stand by and let the economy crater.

The Politics of The Hunger Games

Bob Burnett | Posted 05.30.2012

Bob Burnett

Sixty-three years ago, Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 turned out to be prophetic. Will that be true of The Hunger Games? Decide for yourself and "May the odds be ever in your favor."

Injured People and the One Percent

Don McNay | Posted 05.27.2012

Don McNay

Before I took the time to really study the legislation I called it Obamacare. I encouraged my Democratic Congressman to vote against it, which he did. Now I am calling it health care reform.

Who Are America's 6 Richest Women?

LearnVest | Posted 05.24.2012

LearnVest

Forbes' comprehensive list of the world's billionaires (there are 1226) came out recently, and we were curious -- are there women on the list? Turns out, there are.

Top One Percent Of One Percent Make Up Big Share Of U.S. Income Gains

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012

By David Cay Johnston March 15 (Reuters) - The aftermaths of the Great Recession and the Great Depression produced sha...

PHOTOS: Occupy Wall Street Holds 'One Percenters For Romney' Protest

Posted 03.15.2012

A Mitt Romney fundraiser brought Occupy Wall Street protestors back from the depths of winter for a protest outside the Waldorf-Astoria, where the pre...

The Great Battle of 2012 In California

Fermin Vasquez | Posted 05.01.2012

Fermin Vasquez

Corporations and the 1% with their unlimited cash coffers and influence over Sacramento politicians will seek to drown out the voices of the 99%. While they may have unlimited resources, we have unquenchable creativity and people power.

PHOTO: Mercedes-Benz Convertible Rocks 'OCCUPY' License Plate

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 02.29.2012

It may not be surprising to see the Occupy slogan plastered on t-shirts or signs in Zuccotti Park, but on the back of a car worth more than $50,000? T...

It's Up to the 99% to Insist Upon a Better Form of Capitalism

Peter Smirniotopoulos | Posted 04.08.2012

Peter Smirniotopoulos

It's time for the 99% to put up or shut up; time to "vote with our wallets and pocketbooks"; time to act as much like the "good global citizens" our rhetoric suggests we want everyone else in the world to be.

A Strategic Insurance Policy for Self-Absorbed Rich People

Fred Goldring | Posted 04.06.2012

Fred Goldring

The top 1% should realize that it's actually in their own interests to take care of the bottom 99%.

Dan Froomkin

Income Inequality Can Be Fought With Policies That Simultaneously Spur Growth, Report Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.23.2012

Policies that boost economic growth don't necessarily accelerate income inequality -- they can actually reduce it, a group of economists from develope...

Is Banking Immoral? Wrong Question.

Jedediah Purdy | Posted 03.21.2012

Jedediah Purdy

This is how we've learned to talk about our economy: as a matter of personal virtue and vice, from the overdrawn consumer to the one-percenter with the fifteen percent tax rate and some senators' private numbers in his iPhone.

Jason Linkins

We Can Get Your Financial Crisis Kitsch For You Wholesale

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.19.2012

Over at the Washington City Paper, "Rich People Things" author Chris Lehmann goes questing after rumors that post-crash tchotchkes from the House of L...

Breaking News: Romney Is Poor! (At Least According to the IRS)

Lennard Davis | Posted 03.19.2012

Lennard Davis

That's right; only people at or near the poverty line get a tax rate like Romney's. So what's a high flying one-percenter doing paying bargain-basement taxes?