14 Mar 2012
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0Finally, a member of the 1% has confirmed most Americans’ suspicions that Wall Street bankers and big corporations are too often fixated on greed and greed alone—a greed that puts personal self-interest above every other value.
On his last day at Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith, the firm’s executive director, spells out why he’s leaving. Instead of the typical...
The biggest conservative conference in the country is happening right now in Washington, DC. It’s an event full of propaganda and self-congratulations. Overall, it’s not a progressive’s dream.
But there is something else happening that isn’t as mundane as a bunch of men in bow ties patting each other on the back. Many of the panels at CPAC are implicitly (or not so...
Story of the Day:
How to Raise and Spend Money Secretly
From BuzzFeed:
The fundraising part of the loophole has been in the news lately: Some donors to Romney's SuperPAC simply set up shell corporations and gave through the corporations, whose ownership is opaque. Their identities, so long as they don't inadvertently disclose them, will remain secret. But a SuperPAC supporting John...
Tomorrow, Floridians will go to the polls to cast their vote: Will it be the race-baiting know-it-all who’s pushing for a moon colony, the “self-deportation” tax flouting flip flopper, or the I-don’t-want-to-give-black-people-money religious right winger.
Or, you know, Ron Paul.
Laid out like that, it’s clear the Republicans have no good options. In fact,...
With less than a week to go before the Florida Republican Presidential Primary, the race is heating up and so is the issue of taxes. Specifically, Mitt Romney's taxes.
After taking a beating from his opponents for refusing to release his previous years' tax returns, former Governor Romney admitted on Fox News Sunday that his campaign made a "mistake in holding off as long as...
