What the rich & corporations know about our capitalist economy that you don’t
overcoming misleading images of capitalism During my eight years of research on the past fifty years of our economy for my book THE HEIST – […]
Economy
The Best Books and Articles on the Heist of $79 Trillion from the Bottom 90%
Orton, Mark M. The Heist: How the Rich and Corporations Stole the American Dream. Davis Orton Group, 2026. Gibbs, David. Revolt of the Rich: How […]
Bran Muffins & Triscuits as a measure of income inequality over the past 50 years
getting our heads around the scale of the inequality I cook bran muffins for my breakfast regularly. After writing the recent post, Seven Numbers That […]
Seven numbers that reveal the past fifty years of income and wealth inequality.
Why isn’t this a campaign issue? US GDP per capita in 1975 was $28,214. In 2025, GDP per capita was $69,499.That is a 144% increase, […]
What is Neoliberalism?
an outline Back in 2022, as I was working on my now-published book, THE HEIST – How the rich and corporations stole the American dream, […]
The Reality of Middle-class Life in America
affordability is not the question…. It’s income stupid. This is a repost of an article by Ashley McNamara on LinkedIn. I recently ran the numbers […]
Expanding on Robert Reich’s Pledges for Democrats – there’s a lot to like, but we can improve on it
Reich published What Democrats Must Pledge to America – Ten ways to make America more affordable on 12.5.2025. Here are the bold titles for the […]
The Extraction Economy – Private Equity in Action
Elizabeth Warren on private equity predators Private equity(PE) firms are the pinnacle of the great shift in the American economy over the past 50 years […]
The K-shaped world we live in – the top 20% are doing well, everyone else, not so good….
My research into the enormous explosion of wealth and income inequality in the US over the past fifty years be summarized as the $79 trillion […]