The narrative is set, and as a rhetorician, I appreciate the value of a good story in shaping public debate. The rich are getting richer,…
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Media, including news coverage of politics and economics.
This campaign season in the United States is already producing some meme myths on social media. One I keep seeing is the “90% tax rate”…
NOTE August 8, 2017: The marginal and effective U.S. Tax rates mentioned in this 2011 post have been supported by research conducted by Thomas Piketty (Paris School…
I’m sick and tired of being told I’m not a liberal (in the common usage of the United States, not elsewhere) because I’m somehow from…
Many people critical of “capitalism” have no idea what the word means. Before returning to graduate school, I worked in real estate and finance. I…
I was asked: “What and when was the last federal referendum in the USA? How much of what kind of legislation is subject to referendum…