Economy

The End of The Second Gilded Age?

Wow, Steve Fraser’s “The Gilded Age, Past and Present” is a scary read.  I highly recommend it.

Welfare Has A Name and It is Wall Street

I give you E.J. Dionne:
Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy.
The Wall Street titans have turned into a bunch of welfare clients. They are desperate to be bailed […]