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A let-the-rich-be government has opened the doors to the smiling heirs of Italy’s neofascist factions.

“Countries and regions with higher levels of inequality typically experience deeper recessions,” adds the BIS analysis. “In other words, excessive inequality serves to erode macroeconomic stability.”

The primary problem in a deeply unequal democracy will never be the influence we allow the wealthy to bring to bear on our politics. The primary problem remains concentrated wealth itself, the huge gap between the wealthy and everyone else.

Aren't museums the rich donate to bringing art to the people? In fact, these days, the rich aren’t taking art to the people. They’re taking art from the people and plopping it into storage vaults that the world’s wealthy use to dodge sales taxes.

The dead hand of grand fortunes past is still poisoning our present.

With every purchase, those credit cards in our wallets are reinforcing a rich people-friendly America.

Two new official reports out of Washington trace our growing economic divide and the high price we pay, in dollars and lives, for letting that divide fester.

Most of the candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination seem to have no problem with the presence of grand private fortunes

Will those who focus on wealth’s concentration gain the upper hand within the Democratic Party’s leadership?

To most Americans, the best marker of a healthy economy will always be a decent-paying, full-time job. An economy only deserves celebrating when people with full-time jobs have rising paychecks. In America today, they don’t.