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Study: Richest 0.00025 Percent Of Americans Own More Than Bottom 150 Million

By Jake Johnson
Banks Got $21 Billion Tax Break — And Then Cut Thousands Of Jobs

By Emily Singer
What's The Cost Of High Living?

By Jim Hightower
How The Trump Republican Tax Cut Broke Our Economy

By David Cay Johnston
Business Economists: GOP Tax Bill Failed To Spur Investment, Jobs

By Dan Desai Martin

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Study: Richest 0.00025 Percent Of Americans Own More Than Bottom 150 Million
The richest 400 Americans have seen their wealth triple since the 1980s, while the wealth of much of the U.S. population has stagnated.
By Jake Johnson
What's The Cost Of High Living?
The rich aren't merely different from you and me. ... They're ridiculous!
By Jim Hightower
America's Wealth Floods Into Already Wealthy Cities
Amazon's drawn-out search for another command post to rival the home base in Seattle appears to have been a stunt.
By Froma Harrop
Human Rights Group Demands Probe Of Giuliani And Trump In Alleged Money-Laundering
Prosecutors asked to probe dutch middlemen washing billions in dirty Kazakh cash for real estate deals in US and Europe.
By David Cay Johnston
The Hidden Money Funding The Midterms
Strategies that let super PACs delay revealing their donors until after the election are gaining popularity among both Democrats and Republicans.
By ProPublica
Former GOP Mega-Donor Spending Millions To Elect Democrats
Rich Republicans are switching sides to stop Trump.
By Eric Boehlert
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Chief Justice Halts Disclosure Of 'Dark Money' Donors
Chief Justice John Roberts halted a federal judge’s order that invalidated a Federal Election Commission regulation that has allowed donors to dark-money groups to be anonymous.
By Sarah Okeson
Shedding Some Light On Dark Money Political Donors
Thanks to a good-government group, you can now find out about nearly $763 million in donations to these “dark money” organizations.
By ProPublica
Danziger: A Deficit Of Trust
. Donald Trump told us he would easily balance the budget. After his first year as president, the federal deficit will reach one trillion dollars.
By Jeff Danziger
Treasury Secretary's New Scheme To Further Enrich The Very, Very Rich
The swamp monster who Donald Trump chose as Treasury secretary has a plan to save the richest of the rich billions and billions in taxes – and without any vote by Congress, either.
By David Cay Johnston
Why Higher Techie Incomes May Bring Lower Quality Of Life
With the prosperity came a crisis of homelessness and crushing housing prices for those with moderate incomes.
By Froma Harrop
Freeing Predators To Bilk Little People Hurts Everyone
The mortgages looked like easy money but were actually booby-trapped contracts loaded with high fees and exploding interest charges. They often transformed what could have been manageable setbacks into foreclosures.
By Froma Harrop
Nobel-Winning Doctors' Group Denounces Trump Pharma Plan
The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders issued a stinging rebuke of Trump's plan to address prescription drug costs by pandering to the pharmaceutical industry.
By Caroline Orr
How The Saudi Royals Turned Trump Into Their Tool
The Saudis and their close ally, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have repeatedly reassured American policymakers that they’re doing everything imaginable to prevent civilian casualties, only to launch yet more airstrikes against civilian targets, including schools, hospitals, funerals, and marketplaces.
By Ben Freeman and William Hartung
What Stormy Payoff Reveals About Trump's 'Billions'
The way that Trump “funneled” hush money to a porn actress just 11 days before the election sure makes it look that way. This would be consistent with four decades of Trump claiming vast wealth, but not being able to pay his bills as they come due.
By David Cay Johnston
Bank That Was Under Federal Investigation Appears In Multiple Kushner Deals
By Justin Elliott
House Challengers Raising More Money Than GOP Incumbents
Republicans know they have a fight on their hands to keep control of the House with a narrow majority. And it’s not looking good that to date 14 Democratic challengers have outraised their GOP incumbents while not a single Democratic incumbent faces the same problem, according to cycle-to-date campaign finance data. In fact, nine Democrats have six-figure advantages over their opponents.
By Jillian S. Ambroz
Danziger: Cherchez La Femme
By Jeff Danziger
#EndorseThis: Reporter Shares Audio Of Trump Cheating His Way Into Forbes 400
By Kurt Boyer
Quarterly Fundraising Adds Up To GOP Catastrophe
“Thanks to a map that puts more Democratic than Republican seats at risk, our party will still cling to control of the Senate, but GOP House members lack insulation: They will crawl out from the smoking rubble of a 40- to 50-seat pounding to find they have lost their majority,” writes longtime GOP operative Alex Castellanos.
By Eric Boehlert
Florida GOP In Crisis As Major Donor Threatens To Pull Money Over Guns
Hoffman has donated millions of dollars to GOP causes and politicians, including Florida Gov. Rick Scott — a top recipient of NRA donations who maintains an “A+” rating from the NRA’s Political Victory Fund — and the Senate Leadership Fund, a group focused on defending Republicans’ majority in the Senate.
By Caroline Orr
Treasury Secretary Unable To Explain Russia Sanctions Failure
In late January, Trump ignored the deadline to impose sanctions on Russian oligarchs, which was just the latest example of Trump’s suspicious reluctance to punish Russia for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. Or even acknowledge that it happened.
By Tommy Christopher
Trump's Wacky Right-Wing 'Blue Apron' Scheme
The Trump White House’s newly proposed budget is (like all White House budget proposals) more of a political document than anything else. It has no actual bearing on how the government will spend its money, and Congress will almost certainly ignore it.
By Simon Maloy
Americans Are Dying Because They Can't Afford Medicine
A 38-year-old second-grade teacher and mom in Texas died of the flu this week after she’d delayed picking up her prescription medication because couldn’t afford the $116 copay. By Friday night, Heather Holland's condition had worsened and she was taken to the hospital. She died Sunday morning.
By April M. Short
#EndorseThis: Colbert Nails Trump For Punting The Economy Into A Sarlacc Pit
By Kurt Boyer
Broken Promise: Trump Must Borrow 84 Percent More To Finance Debt
By Alison R. Parker
GOP Tax Plan Hides Trillions In Sweetheart Deals For Apple And Other Multinationals
By David Cay Johnston
The Trump Economy Is No Great Success (And He Didn't Build It)
By Steve Chapman
OMB Chief Mulvaney Is Making The World Safe For Loan Sharks
By Sarah Okeson
Trump's Economic Sugar Rush Sours As GDP Growth Falls In Final Quarter
By Kurt Boyer
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