One Percenters’ Valentine

John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri Feb 16, 2014 Dig deeper

Venture Capitalist Apologizes for Comparing 1-Percenters to Victims of the Holocaust

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jan 28, 2014 Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Mr. Burns

Signe Wilkinson / Truthdig Sep 13, 2013 Dig deeper

How Wealth Breeds Narcissism

Staff / Truthdig Aug 26, 2013 Though it may already seem obvious that richer people are generally more entitled than poorer ones, a new study reveals there’s psychological evidence to support this assessment. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Exposed: A Global Offshore Money Matrix of Up to $32 Trillion

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 4, 2013 A cache of 2.5 million secret files offers the chance to peek behind the curtain of the world's offshore money market, detailing the involvement of more than 120,000 companies and trusts doing business with politicians, con men and scores of the mega-rich. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Occupy Wall Street: One Year Later

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Sep 17, 2012 The Occupy movement is celebrating its first anniversary Monday with a full slate of protests and a side of party hats. At least 100 arrests have been reported thus far. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How Tax Reporting Is Skewed to Benefit the Rich

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 24, 2012 Think tanks such as the Cato Institute and the Tax Foundation like to cherry-pick tax data to claim that the rich pay more than their fair share But a broad look at taxation shows it’s not true, a writer at The Economist saysThe Cato Institute and the Tax Foundation like to cherry-pick tax data to claim that the rich pay more than their fair share. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The .0000063% Election

By Ari Berman, TomDispatch Feb 18, 2012 At a time when it’s become cliché to say Occupy Wall Street has changed the nation’s political conversation, electoral politics and the 2012 presidential election have become almost exclusively defined by the 1%. Or, to be more precise, the .0000063%. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Inside Romney’s Tax Returns

By Lena Groeger, ProPublica Jan 26, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released 550 pages of tax returns Tuesday and news organizations are making their way through them ProPublica shows us where to look to make sense of the numbersRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released 550 pages of tax returns Tuesday. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Latest New York Tax Reforms Disproportionately Benefit the Rich

Staff / Truthdig Dec 11, 2011 Many in the media are touting a recent overhaul of the state of New York's tax scheme as a sign of a new age of increased burden for top earners and a victory for the 99 percent. But close inspection reveals that such comparisons exclude the contributions of a soon to expire, 3-year-old “millionaires' tax,” and the new codes favor the rich. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Here Comes the Capital Strike

Staff / Truthdig Nov 26, 2011 From his seat in Congress, House Speaker John Boehner announced in mid-September that American business owners would continue to hold the nation's wealth (and thus the public welfare) hostage until government granted them the “low-tax, deregulated world they wanted,” writes journalist and author Thomas Frank in Harper’s online. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )