The Rich

Tom Wolfe: The Rich Have Feelings Too - Vanity Fair

Posted 09.28.2009 | Business


Do the rich have feelings too? In the latest issue of Vanity Fair, Tom Wolfe, who famously chronicled the buyout kings of the 1980s in The Bonfire Of ...

Here's Why Nice Work Pays Much Better

Christina Patterson | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business


Christina Patterson

Politicians basically agree with the bankers. They think that the most highly educated people in our society are the ones most likely to operate on a base level of animal greed.

The Bigger Shame: The Rich Got Richer

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics


Jonathan Tasini

Respectfully, we can rage about the spectacle of bonuses on Wall Street, but the real crime is this: while a fiscal crisis mushrooms, the richest Americans are let off the hook.

Governor Paterson, Have You Lost Your Moral Compass?

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics


Jonathan Tasini

It's regular people who had nothing to do with this financial disaster who continue to take the hit. In New York, Paterson's new budget takes aim at workers and lets the rich of the hook.

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Paul Szep | Posted 01.01.2009 | Home


Paul Szep

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The Mansion Trap

Vicky Ward | Posted 12.12.2008 | Business


Vicky Ward

On February 25 of this year, the famed Hearst residence Villa Venezia was foreclosed on for $22 million. It was revealed that Veronica Hearst was $45 million in debt and was living a life she could not afford.

We Have Plenty Of Money -- The Rich Are Killing Us

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics


Jonathan Tasini

While our country is disintegrating, the rich are hiding. They are hiding behind a decades-long ideology that paralyzes the political system from being serious about what the rich should pay.