Too big to fail: An executive suite t...
If a blunder you committed cost your employer $4 million, how long would you stay employed? In America today, a CEO can cost his company $4 billion and still collect both a paycheck and a bonus.
How power suits subvert the law of th...
Lawmakers make laws. They don’t enforce them. Corporate America understands that difference — and exploits it with a relentless regularity. The latest case in point: the battle over outrageous CEO pay.
America’s plutocrats play the p...
Any resemblance between democracy and U.S. Presidential politics has become, in our new super PAC era, purely coincidental. The only mystery: Why aren’t billionaires placing even bigger bets?
The ‘Buffet Rule’ in hist...
President Obama has proposed a specific new minimum tax rate for millionaires. Should America’s rich feel angry...
Can bossy billionaires boss forever?
Changes in state tax laws now encourage America’s awesomely affluent to create “perpetual” trusts for their heirs. The combination of these new laws and new technology, legal scholars are warning, now allows the “dead hand” of the past to rule over the living. In essence, immortality for the rich.
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