Over the last several years, thousands of businesses across the country — from big corporations to storefront shops— have used arbitration to create an alternative system of justice. In arbitration rules tend to favor businesses, and judges and juries have been replaced by arbitrators who commonly consider the companies their clients. The change has been …
The wealthiest households are paying tax at the lowest rate in 50 years, some paying just half of the Federal income tax that top earners paid in 1960. They are, of course, still complaining. Trump is very concerned for them. On the other end of the scale we were approached for help and advice some …
Yesterday’s edition of the Washington Post carried an article by George Will. He pointed out that loss of manufacturing jobs was the tip of an iceberg – it is the continued loss of retailing jobs that is an even greater worry. There isn’t a lot you can do about manufacturing, if only because what is …
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We are asked to believe that a bunch of elderly billionaires, mostly with some very dubious and illiberal aspects to their backgrounds, are really going to give the power back to the people, work for social justice, create jobs at above minimum wage, offer a rational health scheme to replace Obamacare, get rid of all …
“Words change. When Donald Trump, Arron Banks or Nigel Farage rail against ‘the elite’, they don’t mean rich, powerful men like themselves. They mean liberals. They mean middle-class, degree-educated, city-dwelling progressives; the do-gooders, the tree-huggers, the PC brigade. And that is the definition their audiences hear. They know who Trump and Farage are talking about. …
