The Price of Safety: Why Cheap Regulation Creates Expensive Crises
Do you want Boeing deciding if its airplanes are safe? Or JPMorgan deciding if its bets are sensible? More »
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Has the U.S. Passed Peak Car?
Do you want Boeing deciding if its airplanes are safe? Or JPMorgan deciding if its bets are sensible? More »
We have more than enough money to protect Social Security. It's just going to the wrong people: private savers. More »
Why reducing retirement benefits to pay down the deficit is a terrible idea More »
Or, to be more precise, the mutual fund company that oversees your 401(k) plan is out to get you. More »
Democrats maneuvered themselves into making the Bush tax cuts permanent, putting Medicare and Social Security at risk in the long run More »
Forty years from now, America will be twice as rich on average as we are today. But most of that wealth will go to the very richest households. We only have a budget crisis if they refuse to pay higher taxes. More »
Chief executives are getting away with a clever trick: Publicly calling for higher taxes while giving money to the presidential candidate who will cut theirs More »
Neither Obama nor Romney is offering a perfectly plausible vision of America: A stronger safety net and better security paid for with higher taxes on more than the top 2%. More »
Last week, the Washington Post published a take down of entitled "job creators." Well, I really am a job creator. And here's what I think the country and I are entitled to. More »
Our economy and tax system already bestow large rewards on people who start successful businesses. It's the rest of America that needs help. More »
The government should be proud of its amazing rescue of AIG. But even this "good" bailout came at a steep price. More »
This is one issue where Obama and Romney agree: We must do something to prevent a steep and simultaneous tax increase and spending cut in early 2013. But what if we don't? More »
Do we respect the power of software as much as we should? More »
(1) There's so much money at stake for individual players. (2) There's so much complexity in the laws and rules. (3) There's so much reluctance at the top to make fundamental changes. More »
Sometimes the Supreme Court seems to behave as if it exists in the same universe as rational human beings. Sometimes it doesn't. Today it did both. More »
From the financial collapse to Citizens United, America's recent past put it on a dangerous track. More »
Let's hope the Republican Party is bought and paid for by the rich. The other explanation for their interest in raising taxes at the bottom is far more disturbing. More »
5 reasons to support higher taxes right away More »
The Bush/Obama tax cuts saved me thousands of dollars. I'm ready to donate it all to politicians who want to double my taxes. More »
