The New YorkerWealth The French Economist Who Helped Invent Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth TaxThe New Yorker - Benjamin Wallace-WellsTo trace the progress of the wealth tax from a fringe academic idea to the center of the Democratic Presidential primary, it is helpful to begin a bit off-center. On September 15, 2008, the day that Lehman
Salonflipped into News & PoliticsWealth What the Democrats aren't talking about: Fighting the new Gilded Age with genuine populismSalon - Chauncey DeVegaAmerica is in a second Gilded Age. The facts are clear. The richest 1 percent of American families own approximately 40 percent of the country’s wealth. The richest one-tenth of 1 percent of American control
Toronto Sunflipped into Toronto Sun NewsCanada OPINION: Candidates don’t really want Canadians to pay their ‘fair share’torontosun.com - Special to Toronto SunThe phrase “fair share of taxes” was mentioned numerous times during the federal election debate in Gatineau, Quebec. Unfortunately, the phrase was never defined and always accompanied by rhetoric rather
The Interceptflipped into NewsU.S. Politics Democrats Want to be Economic Populists. Why Are They Clinging to a Flawed Reagan-Era Tax Credit?The Intercept - Sam Adler-Bell Tuesday’s presidential debate confirmed that the Democratic Party’s center of gravity has fundamentally shifted. The contenders projected a …
Basic Income Westcott fighting for return of basic income guaranteetbnewswatch.com - Leith Dunick THUNDER BAY – Ruth Westcott says Ontario’s now-cancelled basic income pilot project changed her life. It’s why she’s helping to lead a grassroots …
Amit Vermaflipped into India Elections 19Nobel Prize If BJP had asked me for (UBI) numbers, I would have given it to them too: Abhijit Banerjeeindiatimes.com - Shankar Raghuraman, Neelam Raaj In a freewheeling interview with TOI, Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo share their thoughts and anecdotes on a wide array of …
New York Postflipped into LivingSocial Justice Rand Paul: Why Sanders' socialism hurts the poor as much as the richNew York Post - By Rand Paul Four in 10 Americans now consider some kind of socialism “a good thing for the country as a whole” — an 18 percent increase since 1942, according to …
Justin Trudeau More Money, Tax Free | Our Platformliberal.ca - 2019.liberal.ca We will help Canadians keep more of what they earn. Four years ago, we gave Canadians the tax break they deserve – putting hundreds of dollars back …
David Jrflipped into MalaysiaPeninsular Malaysia A glimmer of hope for the downtrodden?nst.com.my - By Dr Azeem Fazwan Ahmad Farouk AN observation of two neighbourhoods in Peninsular Malaysia will clearly show how a person’s socioeconomic status is correlated to both economic and …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoChristianity 9 Things You Should Know About Global Povertythegospelcoalition.org - Joe Carter On Monday a trio of American economists—Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer—won the Nobel Prize in economics for “their experimental …
Dima Kharenaflipped into Planning Ref Toronto, ON Working-Age Adults Are the Poorest in Toronto — Canada's Biggest Cityglobalcitizen.org - By Jackie Marchildon A new report highlights disparities across the city. Global Goal 1 is to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030 — all around the world. To tackle poverty, …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoTaxes Matthew Lilly on Saez and Zucmanmarginalrevolution.com - Tyler Cowen From an email:The eye-catching result here is they have consumption taxes being *sharply* regressive, e.g. 12% for the lowest income group. I’m not …
Business (New Zealand) Zuckerberg vs Bernie: Should we abolish billionaires?nzherald.co.nz - NZ Herald Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared to defend the existence of billionaires on Friday, pushing back against Senator Bernie Sanders' assertion that …
CNBC-TV18flipped into CNBC-TV18 Finance (India)Nobel economics winner Abhijit Banerjee: Modi offered voters clearest vision of a different India and they responded tocnbctv18.com - CNBC-TV18 India-born Abhijit Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday along with fellow US-based economists Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for …
Taxes Tax plans of federal parties range from bad to naive | National Newswatchnationalnewswatch.com - By Jake Fuss and Tegan Hill — National Newswatch — Oct 19 2019 Before Canadians go to the polls next week, they should understand each party’s tax plan, which unfortunately range from bad to worse to downright …
Poverty Poverty Rates Are Once Again on the Rise in Australia Following Years of Declinesglobalcitizen.org - By Madeleine Keck The report also reveals insights into rates of employment and trends in mental health. Poverty impacts almost every aspect of a person's life, …
Wealth Tax The Problem with Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth-Tax Planmises.org - Germinal G. Van Elizabeth Warren is among the strongest contenders and Democratic hopefuls for the presidential election of 2020. During the fourth Democratic …
Chicago Tribuneflipped into BusinessCalifornia California unemployment rate falls to record low of 4%Chicago Tribune - By By OLGA RODRIGUEZ and ADAM BEAMCalifornia's economy kept humming in September, dropping the unemployment rate to a record low 4% statewide and under 2% in San Francisco and some of its neighboring counties, a level that economists thought
CNBCUnited States If you want the American dream, 'you ought to move to Canada,' says Ford Foundation presidentCNBC - Kevin Stankiewicz For a chance at the American dream, look to the U.S.' northern neighbor, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker told CNBC on Friday. "That American …
MarketWatchWealth Tax Here’s what you need to earn to crack the 1%, according to latest IRS dataMarketWatch - By Shawn Langlois When hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio asked a crowded ballroom at a Milken Institute conference earlier this year whether they agreed that the …
Barron'sWealth Tax Wealth Taxes Don’t Work. Here’s Why.Barron's - Randall W. Forsyth “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. To which his contemporary, Ernest Hemingway, …
National ReviewConservative View Income Inequality Has Soared While Taxes Have Become Dramatically Less Progressive . . . or NotNational Review - Robert VerBruggen The New York Times eagerly pushed a narrative with massive holes. The truth gets its boots on pretty quickly in the Internet age. On October 6, the New …
Business Insiderflipped into MarketsU.S. Politics Chart shows decline in percentage of children outearning their parents - Business InsiderBusiness Insider - Joseph Zeballos-RoigAn American child born in 1945 had a more than 90% chance of outearning their parents when they became adults. But fast-forward four decades, and a person born in the 1985 had only a 50% chance of faring
Unsecurityflipped into Wreckage of NeoliberalismCapitalism America needs to fix capitalism to save itThe Economist Guest comment: Glenn HubbardAmerica needs to fix capitalism to save it Apply “Lincolnvelt” policies of greater opportunity and social insurance, says …
Daily Kosflipped into Daily Kos TrendingEmployment Automation, Employment, and Why UBI Beats the Alternative Solutionsdailykos.com - Sillvva According to a report from the Obama White House in 2016: In addition to understanding the magnitude of the overall employment effects, it is also …
Markets Optimal Benefit: Talking to Heather Bousheylareviewofbooks.org - By Andy Fitch How might cleverly crafted research experiments help us devise more egalitarian economic policy? How might increasingly rigorous empirical data help …
Taxes Costs of Higher Spending Would Fall on Middle Classcato.org - www.cato.org A Wall Street Journal editorial was right to zero in on Elizabeth’s Warren's “determined refusal to say if her plans would require taxes to increase …
Wealth Tax Summers Lambasts Warren, Sanders Plans to Tax Wealth of the Richyahoo.com - Rich Miller (Bloomberg) -- Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers lambasted proposals to tax the wealth of the richest Americans made by presidential …
Bernie Sanders WATCH: Mike Rowe Gives Devastating Summary Of Democratic Candidates’ Economic Agendadailywire.com - James Barrett As part of a promotional tour for his new book, “The Way I Heard It,” former “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe appeared on “Fox and Friends” Wednesday …
Richard Palbergflipped into Beautiful British ColumbiaIcon version of the Flipboard logoWealth Tax I’m Part of the 0.1 Percent and I Want a Wealth Taxthewalrus.ca - Meghan Bell In the face of rising inequality, we need to elect politicians who will tax the rich
