- Obama unveils $3.8 trillion budget--"President Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion budget request (NYT) Monday that hikes taxes on the rich, spends new money on infrastructure and education, but does little to reform the entitlement programs that pose the biggest long-term threat to the federal budget."
- Millionaire Investor Calls for Higher Taxes on the Rich--"We are systematically destroying our customer base in this country by undercutting the middle class.... 'If it was true that the rich and business were job creators, we'd be drowning in jobs today."
- Obama says Bush era tax cuts must go
- The Weakening of Nations: How Tax Work-Arounds Undermine Our Society
- House Republicans Yield on Extending Payroll Tax Cut NYT
- Moyers: Meet the Shameless Plutocrats Choking What's Left of Our Democracy--"The race for the White House may cost more than two billion dollars. What's getting trampled into dust are the voices of people who aren't rich."
- Graphic: The richest 1% of Americans' share of income since the Great Depression.
- Greenwald: Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence critics Salon
- America’s Billionaire-Run Democracy Salon
- Rothschild loses libel case, and reveals secret world of money and politics
- Mind-Blowing Charts From the Senate's Income Inequality Hearing
- Income Inequality: The government had better ideas for fixing it 100 years ago
- Corporate Margins And Profits Are Increasing, But Workers' Wages Aren't
- Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It--It's only socialist when they don't benefit from it. NYT
- Krugman: Moochers Against Welfare NYT
- How Blue America Subsidizes Red America
- Greece shows us how to protest against a failed system--"The rage displayed in Greek cities against austerity measures inspires all who are suffering for the benefit of banks and the rich."
- How Goldman Sachs helped mask Greece's debt
- Leaked Memo Blows The Lid Off Of The Entire Greek Bailout
- Icelandic Anger Brings Debt Forgiveness--"Since the end of 2008, the island’s banks have forgiven loans equivalent to 13 percent of gross domestic product, easing the debt burdens of more than a quarter of the population."
- Krugman: Pain Without Gain--"The results are in: austerity policies have been an utter failure." NYT
