Tag: new gilded age
What could be more New Gilded Age than the return of the Pinkertons as the hired thugs of anti-union companies? Nothing more New Gilded Age is possible. Sarah Jones explains: Workers at the telecommun
Michael Hiltzik on the wonderful times we live in: The first government-mandated disclosure of the ratio of CEO vs. average worker pay has surfaced, and as has been widely expected, it’s obscene

Our glorious leader decided to have a fun political stunt where he brags about eliminating the last 60 years of regulations. President Trump said on Thursday that his administration was answering “a
Orrin Hatch with that iron-clad Republican logic: The lead author of the Senate Republican tax plan, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah, said that the federal government no longer has the
Only in the New Gilded Age would a high official see himself and his wife photographed as vile kleptocrats, be compared to the villains in Bond movies, and take the comparison as a compliment. Share
It is impressive how the Republicans aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. To finance a permanent cut in the corporate tax rate, the revised bill permanently repeals the Affordable Care Act’s

Trump combining the qualities of Warren Harding, Andrew Jackson, Richard Nixon, and Andrew Johnson is working out pretty great. A tiny, 2-year-old energy company from a small town in Montana won a $30
Bank of America downgrades Chipotle because the chain pays its workers too much. The chain pays its entry-level workers a bit over $9 an hour. This is evidently unacceptable in modern American capital
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