Forbes released their annual list of billionaires this week, and among the record-setting 290 new members of the exclusive club is a man known for setting plenty of records himself: one Michael Jordan. The...
Hillary Clinton believes in order to truly strengthen the middle class and address the issue of income inequality in America, there will need to be a "toppling" of the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. That...
The Office of the Inspector General recently released a shocking report about the United States military's finances. The Pentagon's record-keeping system is so poor that it cannot provide adequate documentation for $6.5 trillion of spending.
These missing records...
Well, it happened... The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted by two-to-one Thursday to begin unraveling a key 2015 decision by former President Barack Obama protecting consumers' internet content in favor of relaxing regulations on internet service providers. This is...
Although April 15th is known as "Tax Day" to the millions of Americans who pay taxes, USA TODAY is reporting over two-dozen corporations that didn't pay any taxes.
Though you shouldn't be concerned if you're thinking...
It sounded like it could be coming from the mouth of Vermont's famously progressive, Democratic Socialist Senator. The sentiment expressed by the President of the Federal Reserve sounded more like it was coming from one Bernie's...
We here in real America should be growing accustomed to wearing masks in public, avoiding crowds, social distancing, and rubbing our hands raw with prodigious amounts of hand sanitizer.
We here in real America have to...
Now that recreational pot use has been given the green light in a few states and medicinal marijuana use is coming to New York, a company hopes?to provide a kosher variation.
A unnamed marijuana production company?from...
President Donald Trump’s latest gaffe in an attempt at fear mongering is yet another instance where one has to step back and look at the alternative reality we are experiencing. In just 30 days, the...
We've been stuck at home a lot this year.
Maybe you've been working at your Netflix list.
Perhaps you've discovered The Mandalorian on Disney+.
Quarantines, lockdowns, and general anxiety about going out in public have been boons to streaming media companies.
So...
Reagan's Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Were The Biggest Political Scam In The History of The United States
The Republican theory that tax cuts for the wealthy (better known as "Reaganomics") will trickle down to us...
On December 6, 2016, Jason Miller, a spokesperson for President-elect Donald Trump, told the press that Trump had sold "all his stocks" last June. The Washington Post reports that campaign finance disclosure forms filed in May of this...
It begins innocently enough; as you're enjoying your morning cereal and scanning Facebook, you go to the cereal company's Facebook page to see if there are any coupons. They prompt you to "like" the page,...
Tradition states that presidents put their assets in a blind trust in order to avoid conflicts of interest. In the U.S. Constitution, the Emoluments Clause bars officeholders from taking gifts from foreign leaders.
You know, that...
The ripple felt through the economics community continues from the now infamous study by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff, ?Growth in a Time of Debt?. After fluent scrutiny over confirmation that their study was riddled...
We liberals say this all the time: "Pres. Obama has cleaned up former Pres. George W. Bush's messes." While it's true, and we KNOW it's true, there's nothing that will drive a point home better...
I’m not a violent person, but sometimes I wish I could paddle the Republican Party like a strict headmaster at an old-time English boarding school. Especially in this case, because endangering our already strained financial...
An effective way of dividing up an electorate is to separate the "right" from the "left," "liberals" from "conservatives," "liberals" from "progressives," "centrists" from "progressives," "alternative" from "mainstream."
This is no more evident than in the...
We are due for an economic downturn.
Of course that's inevitable in our economy.
Republicans that held the majority in Congress the past several years have successfully rolled back reforms passed after the 2008 recession meant to stop big...
