David Sirota / TruthdigMar 28, 2014
There are many modern-day analogies to Marie Antoinette's attitude toward the proles during the 18th century, but nothing quite like Warren Buffett's billion-dollar giveaway. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Donald Kaufman / TruthdigMar 12, 2014
As he recounts in New York magazine, journalist Kevin Roose was able to infiltrate a secret Wall Street fraternity party in January 2012 that was attended by many of the top financial moguls of our time. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
David Sirota / TruthdigMar 1, 2014
Remember when President Obama was lambasted for saying "you didn't build that"? Turns out he was right, at least when it comes to lots of stuff built by the world's wealthiest corporations. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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David Sirota / TruthdigFeb 1, 2014
The rich have never been richer and the poor keep getting poorer. And if you think there's a problem with that, you're a Nazi. At least according to the poor, put-upon oligarchs. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Donald Kaufman / TruthdigJan 14, 2014
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has teamed up with Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma to introduce a bill that takes aim at the efficacy and malfeasance of government settlements on corporate wrongdoing and could bring billions of dollars back to taxpayers. If corporations have the same rights as people, then they should have to suffer the same consequences. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 15, 2013
Three years after international lenders loaned Ireland $92.7 billion to recover from its part of the international economic crisis, the country is the first afflicted eurozone state to exit its rescue program. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Joe Conason / TruthdigDec 7, 2013
So far, the Republican response to President Barack Obama's historic address on economic inequality has not veered from the predictable cliches of tea party rhetoric. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigNov 6, 2013
Why there is such iron fidelity to neoliberal austerity in the contemporary community of official, semiofficial and even academic economists? It can't be that it works. It doesn't work. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigOct 9, 2013
The head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development is set to address an event co-organized by the London School of Economics, where he is expected to harshly criticize the global disregard of the impending disaster of climate change. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigSep 17, 2013
Poor Lawrence Summers, he doesn't get to be chairman of the Federal Reserve, aka the czar of the world's economic order. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 31, 2013
The first of a planned three-part series on the dangers of private banking highlights government documents describing plans to confiscate the deposits of individuals as well as cities, universities, counties and pension funds when another banking crash occurs. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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