A recent John L. Smith column is so important that I want to repeat part of it here (“Searchlight slugger dodges big target,” April 6 Review-Journal). Mr. Smith wrote that there are people in our society who are going to use their money to try to buy …
This may be a message we, the ninety-nine percent can use against the billionaires, ultra-wealthy and the transnational corporations mutating capitalism to something that threatens the planet. Reading Naomi Klein's book Disaster Capitalism opened my …
Berman argued wealthier people, particularly billionaires, tend to be on the right side of the political spectrum, and if those who have more money will have the most influence, then voters will only receive one-sided political messages. "We are not …
So you got your girlfriend to let you take nekkid pictures of her, of course. So far so normal. But if you are Douglas Tarlow, whose nekkid pix were of Nina Khosla, daughter of Vinod Khosla, batrillionaire founder of Sun Microsystems, you apparently …
It's almost impossible not to be cynical, reading the Times story about the White House and America's young billionaires-to-be. Have you seen it? 100 twenty-somethings, with no particularly noteworthy life achievements besides being the imminent …
To track the outsized influence of Stewart and Lynda Resnick is tough because they have so many subsidiaries and so much money. There are Paramount Farms, Westside Mutual Water Company, a subsidiary of Roll International called Roll Global, which …
Berman argued wealthier people, particularly billionaires, tend to be on the right side of the political spectrum, and if those who have more money will have the most influence, then voters will only receive one-sided political messages. "We are not …
For the two parties slugging it out in the midterms, it's become a battle of the billionaires. The Koch brothers, who underwrite conservative causes, have gotten an avalanche of bad publicity. Tom Steyer, who uses his fortune to push for climate change …
With the commentariat excited by French economist Thomas Piketty's argument that the rich dominate the political and intellectual processes and keep the masses from organizing to promote their own interests, it's worth looking through the Forbes 400 to …