Some Corporate-Suite Context for the Fun and Games at GameStop
Amid a rising billionaire tide, could a blip help change our national economic conversation?
Stop Saying We Can’t Afford a Green New Deal
If top U.S. corporations can afford to spend over $5 trillion buying back their own shares of stock, the United States can afford a Green New Deal.
Who Exactly Is Benefiting from the Rise in Stock Markets? Probably Not You.
When we cheer for the growth in stock prices, what we’re really cheering for is the further swelling of the bank accounts of the already wealthy.
The Robin Hood Tax
Finance should once again support the real economy of goods and services.
One Weak Domino
Other countries have problems, but Greece’s are an encyclopedia of bad behavior.
Unpopular Sarkozy Gets it Right on Financial Transactions Taxes in the G-20
The French President is standing tough in his push to increase taxes on the financial sector.
Taxing the Wall Street Casino
In the United States and many countries around the world, there is growing momentum behind proposals to place a very small tax on trades of stock, currency, derivatives, and other financial assets.
Wake Me Up When It’s June
Seldom has so much stupidity, past and present, been on display simultaneously.