The Druids Grove

These studies are important contributions to the broader debate about the working class. But they represent a minority opinion. Almost everything we know about wages and prices tells us that the typical household has suffered a Lost Decade for market wages. Just as important, the price of necessiti...

I guess I missed something. The Koch brothers own, through stocks and acquisitions, a significant amount of the private capital in the US/Europe. The two brothers together own almost all of Koch Industries, one of the largest private companies in the world. Their is a reason that the worlds wealth ...

Wait... he assaulted her, not for the first time it sounds, and she screamed something nasty in return and she should go to jail? I'm not getting this. People act like children when they're fighting. They say stupid hurtful things. Where it crosses the line is at physical violence. He crossed it, sh...

We're hearing from all the Republicans that we mustn't tax "job creators" -- aka, the incredibly wealthy -- because if we tax them, they can't create jobs. Is there any truth to this? Given that taxes on the stunningly wealthy are at the lowest they've been in 90 years, is this helping the...

If it is charting GDP then: The gross domestic product (GDP) is one the primary indicators used to gauge the health of a country's economy. It represents the total dollar value of all goods and services produced over a specific time period - you can think of it as the size of the economy. Usually, G...

The deficit is largely the result of Bush's tax cuts and the 2 wars.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-08-15/buffett-urges-congress-to-raise-taxes-on-coddled-billionaires.html “My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress,” the chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. wrote in an opinion article publishe...

Democrats never win in these knockdown, drag-out fights. There was a graph recently showing why. Democrats by a largish majority think compromise is important, Republicans think compromise is bad. It seems to always play out that way.

Some men prefer looks over brains. They don't care if their wife can hold up her end of an intellectual conversation. Perhaps some women prefer brains over looks, so they marry well-educated men. Well-educated men tend to make more money than their less well-educated counterparts. That could be anot...