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in GEN

The Fiction of the Self-Made Billionaire

There’s a lot more to astronomical financial success than “hard work”

Ten Years Since Occupy and the Need Is Higher Than Ever

Occupy Greensboro was packing up. Tents were taken down, cooking pots stacked, banners folded. I loaded a number of large white boards into…

The Filibuster And The Myth Of Radical Reversals

Think of the filibuster as a check valve that only goes one way. To the right.

$14.86 or The Math of Repentance

Rodgers, Amazon, Musk, and our inability to count to a trillion

Would an Efficient Economy Create Billionaires?

I’ve been running the numbers. It doesn’t look good.

American Atrophy

What we see now in America is what happens when we fail to make generous investments in the next generation

The Case for the Billionaire’s Tax

We Have the Opportunity to Address Inequality

Will we take it?

America Is Rich Enough To Make Every American a Winner

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