This Sam Blankman dude has been in the news lately.  Now he's said to be fighting extradition.  If experts are to be believed he'll lose and wind up being brought back to face criminal charges.  However it keeps bugging...
With the exceptions of MSNBC and CNN, I don't watch traditional "network" television, but even I'm passingly aware of a television show on CNBC, with a bunch of passably photogenic, moderately coherent venture capitalists giving sad sacks who come...
In the first two parts of this series, I explored ways to create substantial increases in tax revenues to be paid by America’s wealthiest families. An examination of much-needed tax reform would not, however , be complete without an overhaul...
Corporations are people too, my friends.   Mitt Romney Anybody remember that old line from the Mittster? I sure as hell do. It was pundit gold, and along with his imbecilic "47%" comment from a closed fund raiser, sealed Romney's 2012...
(Cartoon by Dave Whamond Cagle.com) The meteoric fall of Liz Truss’ tax cutting immigrant bashing Prime Ministry in England should serve as a warning to conservative populists every where opines Eugene Robinson in The Washington Post… “Truss’s announced departure after just...
Recently, President Biden introduced a  $1 Trillion infrastructure plan targeted to improve highways, bridges, and public transportation and to  support clean water, as well as clean energy. He also  proposed a  $3.5 Trillion 10-year initiative to improve health care, education,...
It was only a few weeks ago when I wrote that Trump had long ago already lost his trade war with Chine. The two biggest takeaways I put in there to make my point was that Chinese President Xi...
This is too funny. The 45th president of the United States wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal rebutting one of their editorials. Had this been any other former president doing so, I feel comfortable in saying that...
I guess they think it's too early to spend all their time on "horse race" speculation "journalism" so the ever eager to avoid actually conducting themselves like actual journalists have found themselves one of those shiny objects they love...
Fox's Chris Wallace actually got Trump's economic adviser Larry Kudlow to admit on air that Donald Trump doesn't have a clue how tariffs actually work. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1127599967416279040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1127599967416279040&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2019%2F5%2F12%2F1857197%2F-Trump-tariff-policy-to-now-cost-the-US-27-Billion-because-trade-wars-are-good-and-easy-to-win Now #brokeahontas, Trump's newest trending Twitter handle, has no idea how things are actually paid...

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