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Matt Yglesias resigns from the presumed-progressive community — with prejudice

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Shorter Yglesias: I enrich myself by defending your forced suffering. Bad choice on your part.
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Chained CPI, a tale of the Rich and the Rest

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Only the wealthy want to cut Social Security with Chained CPI. The rest of us want benefits to expand.
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Ed Asner narrates “Tax the Rich: An animated fairy tale”

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The solution to our problems is simple: We must tax the rich. When will we accept that simple fact?
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Internet redlining: How “personalization” is helping companies ignore “less-attractive” consumers

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Internet “personalization” is sold as adding experience, but it’s helping companies redline the underclass.
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More on wealth transfer, the Social Security shortfall, and rule by billionaires

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It turns out that rule by billionaires & the Social Security shortfall are closely connected. Here’s how.
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$11 million annual salary is “modest,” says bailed-out bankster Chairman

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Four and a half years after the banking collapse, the bankers still don’t get it.
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America faces more than a dozen deadlines, all caused by billionaires and wealth transfer

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America has a “billionaire problem.” Stopping wealth transfer is at the heart of every national solution.
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Obama’s bankster bromance

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Why does the President continue to treat Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein like he’s royalty?
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Americans overwhelmingly prefer raising payroll taxes & increasing Social Security benefits

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Only Big Money wants to cut Social Security benefits. The whole rest of the country wants to increase them.
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Cat beats stockbrokers in picking best stocks for 2012

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A cat, some stockbrokers, and students each invest £5,000 ($7,918) in the stock market. After 1 year, cat wins.
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