After the 2008 financial crisis in the United State —  the result of Wall Street bundling bad mortgages together and selling them as investments — writer Michael Lewis wrote, The Big Short, a best seller about what happened.  Primarily, he focused on the few canny invest

Being poor in America isn’t for the faint of heart.  You need your wits about you because  you can’t afford a doctor if you get sick or a lawyer if you get scammed.  One of the biggest predators of the disadvantaged, along with pay day loan sharks, are for profit schools.  The

When we read about the high wages earned by CEOs of corporations the justification is always the same.  Those high salaries are necessary to attract and keep good management.  But doesn’t the same logic apply to workers?  Aren’t good wages and good benefits part of keeping empl

“…as China is building modern infrastructure, we are looking to build our own Great Wall.” So writes Sheila Bair, former chair of the FDIC and author of the best seller, Bull by the Horns.  That our Congress is intent upon walling immigrants out rather than building a transport