Zombie Politics

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf steps down amid sales scandal "The San Francisco bank said Wednesday that Stumpf is retiring effective imm...

Peter Georgescu has become another member of the one percent to call for action on the inequality in our country. This time, however, he...

Well, it's still too soon to tell, obviously, but Ivar's Salmon House in Seattle seems to be handling it just fine. As Washingto...

I remember, quite fondly, actually, the derision towards the Occupy movement. "Occupy a job" was a common dig along with predictio...

Nick Hanauer has done it again. His recent open memo to his fellow zillionaires is exceptional. Here are a few great pulls... At the same ...

As I have previously predicted, the wealthy are starting to come around on inequality . Bill Gross, the most powerful bond manager of his ge...

In the final chapter of his magnificent work, The Price of Inequality , Joseph Stiglitz details the steps we must take as a nation if we are...

The penultimate chapter in Joseph Stiglitz's The Price of Inequality illustrates how macroeconomic policy in this country is essentiall...

The next chapter in Stiglitz's book,  The Price of Inequality , is called "The Battle of the Budget." Written around the time ...

Emmanuel Saez from UC Berkeley has released his latest report on inequality and it reminds me that I need to finish off my last three inst...

Here's an interesting piece from a few weeks ago about the Occupy Movement.  While they may appear to have fallen off the map (at leas...

What amazes the most about these figures is not the disparity but the willful ignorance of the right ...

Remember how the whole one percent-ninety nine percent narrative was dying? Or dead? Yeah, still not so much. Take a look at this photo that...