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America's Plutocrats Play the Political Ponies

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?

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The 'Buffett Rule' in History's Grand Sweep

President Obama has proposed a specific new minimum tax rate for millionaires. Should America's rich feel angry or relieved? We check the IRS tax data archives for an answer.

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SOTU: He Hasn't Learned Anything More About the Economy in the Past Year

Last year I prepared for the SOTU by speculating about the “fairy tales” the President would tell about fiscal responsibility, fiscal sustainability and the debt/deficit problem. more »

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Can Bossy Billionaires Now 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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Law and Order 24/7, Except at Tax Time

The rich don't much like paying taxes when tax rates run high. They don't much like paying taxes when tax rates run low either.

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America’s Greediest: The 2011 Top Ten Edition

One puts on football pageants. Another makes millions on a virtual farm. From Too Much, the Institute for Policy Studies inequality weekly, we present the year's ten most avaricious. All ten remind us just how much needs to change, economically and politically, in 2012 and beyond.

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On Wall Street, Still Tis the Season to Be Jolly?

Financial industry insiders are grousing about a big downturn in annual bonuses. They should be thanking the rest of us — bombshell new research shows — for their continuing awesome good tidings.

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The Alchemy of Our Awesomely Affluent

Today's super rich can't turn tin into gold. But they can get Uncle Sam to loan them free money. At the expense, of course, of America's bottom 99 percent.

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America's Affluent and the New Bunker Down

Back in 1970, the vast majority of Americans lived in neighborhoods that mixed people of substantial and modest means. No more. In fact, says a new study, the share of Americans living amid intense income segregation has more than doubled.

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The Global Super-Rich Stash: Now $25 Trillion

Another super-slick global financial analysis firm has just tallied how much net worth is sloshing around in the pockets of the world’s most spectacularly wealthy. So when will the time finally come to stop the counting — and start the taxing?

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