- 'Oligarchy': History of how the super-rich defend their wealth
- The 1% Have a Stranglehold on Politics: New Al Jazeera Documentary Sheds Light on the Koch Brothers
- Top 1% getting richer: Study shows growing income disparity
- The Ideological Fantasies of Inequality Deniers
- Why the Rich Get Richer--"Those who have money have a systemic advantage in the acquisition of proven productive resources over those who do not, an advantage which compounds."
- How the Legal System Was Deep-Sixed to Serve Elite America and Occupy Wall Street Became Inevitable
- Immunity and impunity in elite America: The top one per cent of US society is enjoying a two-tiered system of justice and politics--Salon's Glenn Grenwald is coming out with a new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some
- What the Costumes Reveal--Employees of NY's largest "foreclosure mill", Steven J. Baum, dressed as the homeless for their Halloween party last year.
- House GOP Wants To Repeal Requirement That Banks Hold A Portion Of Their Risky Loans--Guess who their real constituents are.
- Nevada Makes Illegal Foreclosures Felony
- Bank of America leads, but no one follows: Moynihan’s bluff called, move on fees backfires
- Wells Fargo Cancels Pilot of $3 Monthly Fee for Debit Cards
- Using Credit Cards to Target Web Ads--" The two largest credit-card networks, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., are pushing into a new business: using what they know about people's credit-card purchases for targeting them with ads online. "
- Visa Exposed As Massive Credit Card Scam The Onion
- The flat tax fraud--"Conservatives are pushing the flat tax as a smokescreen. They’d rather not have anyone talk about the unfairness and fiscal absurdity of the current system."
- Perry Adviser Steve Forbes Crafted Flat Tax Plan That Would Have Given Himself A $1.9 Billion Tax Cut
- Millionaires Support Warren Buffett's Tax on the Rich--"A new survey from Spectrem Group found that 68% of millionaires (those with investments of $1 million or more) support raising taxes on those with $1 million or more in income. Fully 61% of those with net worths of $5 million or more support the tax on million-plus earners."
- Republican Voters Don't Mind Middle Class Tax Hikes, but Oppose Raising Taxes on Wealthy--Clearly there's a disconnect.
- Swiss Banks May Pay Billions, Disclose Names--"Swiss banks will probably settle a sweeping U.S. probe of offshore tax evasion by paying billions of dollars and handing over names of thousands of Americans who have secret accounts... ."
- The Republicans' war on science and reason
- The incentive behind GOP obstructionism
- Sabotage: The Story Behind The Republican Party's "Top Political Priority"--"Congressional Republicans won't admit it, but President Obama's proposed American Jobs Act is popular — with voters and economists alike."
- Jon Stewart To GOP On Qaddafi Death: What Is Wrong With You People?
- The Truth Has A Well-Known, Well, You Know NYT
- Eric Cantor Cancels Income Inequality Speech After Learning It Will Be Open to the Public
- Tea party group to Bachmann: Quit the presidential race
- Rubio Tries To Clarify How His Family Left Cuba--"GOP rising star Sen. Marco Rubio caught heat last week for his Senate bio that misstated when his family left Cuba for the U.S...." Emphasis mine for a word that clearly means "lied about".
- GOP candidate admits lesbian affair with 'minor' while working as school gym teacher... but claims Christianity 'cured' her
- NJ GOP Mayor Has 'No Idea' How Rentboy Got Sexy Pictures of Him
