Jamie Dimon's Christmas card basically sums up the New Gilded Age. You'd also think for all that money Dimon could at least afford the proper number of buttons on his shirt.
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Finally we are getting our lazy welfare recipients away from their t-bones and out of their Cadillacs. This will teach them: An emergency federal program that acts as a lifeline.
Speaking of the New Gilded Age, Michael Bloomberg sure is the perfect plutocrat/political leader for it: It was only a matter of time — assuming Michael Bloomberg couldn't run out.
Look, I can't see why everyone is after Steve Stockman just because his campaign headquarters was an overcrowded sweatshop where volunteers lived and worked without safety precautions and was declared unfit for human habitation. Stockman is just living up to the return to the Gilded...
Distressing that this joke actually resonates: According to Kennedy, one of the most pressing concerns associated with rapid aristocratization is the drastic transformation of the metropolitan landscape in a way.
After the Tarzeen fire and Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh over the past year, killing over 1200 workers in total, European companies subcontracting to those factories have stepped up and.
Long-term unemployment? Who cares about long-term unemployment? Things are great! The Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index stalled after hitting record highs on Monday as investors kept their focus on economic stimulus prospects from the Federal Reserve. Soon after trading began,...
Got to give it to Wal-Mart--like the Henry Clay Fricks and J.P. Morgans of old, it lays the system of inequality out for everyone to see: A Cleveland Wal-Mart store.
Boeing CEO Jim McNerney is a sociopath: What we’re hearing from the Boeing Machinists right now isn’t just the usual labor-management posturing. It’s a primal scream of the middle class..
What a surprise that the herbal supplement/alternative medicine industry is filled with hucksters, scam artists, and grifters, the likes of which American medicine hasn't seen since the days of patent medicine before the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration in 1906 For the study,...
Mike Konczal usefully summarizes Gordon Lafer's new report on the Tea Party's class warfare. Although the media and most blogs have focused on Tea Party legislators' work to undermine voting.
Won't somebody think about the plutocrats? There are millionaires, there are billionaires, and then there are the people who earn over a billion dollars in a single year. For the.